NYS Department of Health
APPLEBEE'S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL 21
Inspection of September 11, 2025 reports 10 violations.
NYSDOH inspection records are snapshots in time, may not immediately reflect remediation, and were not collected or endorsed as a restaurant grading system. This item reports violations found; it does not label the establishment as passed or failed.
- Inspected
- September 11, 2025
- Address
- 1283 ARSENAL STREET, Watertown, 13601
- County
- Jefferson County
- Inspection type
- Inspection
- Health department
- Watertown District Office
10
Total
4
Critical
6
Non-critical
What the inspector recorded
- Item 10A
Food (ice) contact surfaces are improperly designed, constructed, installed, located (cracks, open seams, pitted surfaces, tin cans reused, uncleanable or corroded food contact surfaces)
- Item 11D
Non food contact surfaces of equipment not clean
- Item 15A
Floors, walls, ceilings, not smooth, properly constructed, in disrepair, dirty surfaces
- Item 1BCritical
Water/ice: unsafe, unapproved sources, cross connections
- Item 2ECritical
Accurate thermometers not available or used to evaluate potentially hazardous food temperatures during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.
- Item 3BCritical
Food workers do not wash hands thoroughly after visiting the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking or otherwise contaminating their hands.
- Item 5ACritical
Potentially hazardous foods are not kept at or below 45°F during cold holding, except smoked fish not kept at or below 38°F during cold holding.
- Item 8A
Food not protected during storage, preparation, display, transportation and service, from potential sources of contamination (e.g., food uncovered, mislabeled, stored on floor, missing or inadequate sneeze guards, food containers double stacked)
Inspector’s comments
Bone in wings found in the walk in cooler at 11:30 am on a sheet pan cooling after being fully cooked to 165F (as per kitchen manager). Labeling on the tray shows wings were placed into cooling at 11:15am, manager states they are placed in immediately after cooking on a single layer tray in the direct air path of the blower fans, this matches how the product was found. Temperature log in the walk in cooler for foods actively cooling not filled out for the wings. Manager stated they will be educating his staff on the importance of filling out the log and properly tracking the cooling process.
The official record
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