LA GRAN PARADA FOOD STORE
5266 Beach Boulevard
Jacksonville, Florida, 32207
Duval County County
Overall Food Safety Rating
★½☆☆☆ (1.8/5)
Based on 3 health inspection reports
All Inspection Reports
Inspection on 3/10/2025
High Priority
4
Intermediate
4
Basic
9
Total
17
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 14-01-5:Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Scooping cooked rice, **Repeat Violation**
- 12B-07-4:Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Above prep cooler, moved by employee **Corrected On-Site**
- 13-03-4:Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Cutting tomatoes, explained to her and got one **Corrected On-Site**
- 14-38-4:Basic - Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. Cracked container for cracked lettuce
- 10-01-5:Basic - In-use utensil in non-time/temperature control for safety food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. On sugar, employee moved it, bar area
- 05-09-4:Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. In one prep cooler
- 51-18-6:Basic - No copy of latest inspection report available. **Repeat Violation**
- 31B-04-4:Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. At cook line **Repeat Violation**
- 25-06-4:Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. Aluminum trays on top shelf for catering, employee inverted them **Corrected On-Site**
- 12A-20-4:High Priority - Employee washed hands with no soap. After picking something from floor. Explained to employee and washed again properly with soap **Corrected On-Site**
- 01A-03-4:High Priority - Food prepared in a private home. See stop sale. Tres leches made at home **Admin Complaint**
- 08A-05-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Raw shrimp on shelf above cut tomatoes and salsa, also shelled eggs on shelf above cooked plantains, employee rearranged both reach in cooler **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
- 03F-02-5:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. For cooked yuca, employee write time **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
- 12A-03-4:Intermediate - Employee washed hands in a sink other than an approved handwash sink. Washed hands in triple sink before putting gloves, explained to her and she washed hands again **Corrected On-Site**
- 31A-11-4:Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Spatula and tongs in it, hand sink at cook line, employee moved them **Corrected On-Site**
- 53B-14-5:Intermediate - Required employee training expired for some employees. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233. 2 expired on 2024, has books to give them
- 41-17-4:Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Chlorine by triple sink, per owner and one at bar
Food safety inspection conducted on 3/10/2025 revealed 17 total violations (4 high priority, 4 intermediate, 9 basic).
Inspection on 10/15/2024
High Priority
1
Intermediate
0
Basic
1
Total
2
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 14-74-7:Basic - - From initial inspection : Basic - Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Door doesn't seal well in upright cooler **Warning** - From follow-up inspection 2024-10-15: 54f cooler **Admin Complaint**
- 03A-02-5:High Priority - - From initial inspection : High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 58f raw chicken and cooked chicken in upright cooler, less than 4 hrs, manager placed them on ice and relocated them, door doesn't seal well **Warning** - From follow-up inspection 2024-10-15: 51f empanadas, cooked chicken, 47f raw beef ribs in upright cooler, brought half hr ago, employee took them back to walk in coller **Admin Complaint**
Food safety inspection conducted on 10/15/2024 revealed 2 total violations (1 high priority, 0 intermediate, 1 basic).
Inspection on 10/8/2024
High Priority
3
Intermediate
2
Basic
13
Total
18
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 14-01-5:Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. On sugar at bar, employee removed it **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
- 14-74-7:Basic - Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Door doesn't seal well in upright cooler **Warning**
- 40-06-5:Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Jacket above lids, bar, employee moved it **Corrected On-Site**
- 14-11-5:Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Cracked on door for warm cabinet, door doesn't seal well in upright cooler
- 29-09-4:Basic - Faucet/handle missing at plumbing fixture. Cold water turning and water doesn't come out, hand sink at bat, manager fixed it **Corrected On-Site**
- 10-08-5:Basic - Ice scoop handle in contact with ice. In ice machine, bar employee moved it **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
- 51-13-4:Basic - No Heimlich maneuver/choking sign posted. Emailed one
- 51-18-6:Basic - No copy of latest inspection report available.
- 31B-04-4:Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Hand sink by triple sink, employee placed one **Corrected On-Site**
- 23-03-4:Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Fan by prep area **Repeat Violation**
- 29-11-4:Basic - Water leaking from pipe and/or faucet/handle. Pipe on hand sink by triple sink **Corrected On-Site**
- 21-12-4:Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. On prep table
- 02D-01-5:Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. White powder at bar, sugar, labeled per employee **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
- 08A-02-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw beef in commercial bag on top of to go container with cooked chicken, box freezer, raw chicken on shelf above cooked chicken in upright cooler, **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
- 03A-02-5:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 58f raw chicken and cooked chicken in upright cooler, less than 4 hrs, manager placed them on ice and relocated them, door doesn't seal well **Warning**
- 03F-02-5:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. For some foods, manager wrote times **Corrective Action Taken**
- 11-27-4:Intermediate - Establishment has no written procedures for employees to follow in response to a vomiting or diarrheal event where the vomit or diarrhea is discharged onto surfaces in the establishment. Emailed one **Corrected On-Site**
- 11-26-1:Intermediate - No proof provided that food employees are informed of their responsibility to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities related to foodborne illnesses. For a new employee **Repeat Violation**
Food safety inspection conducted on 10/8/2024 revealed 18 total violations (3 high priority, 2 intermediate, 13 basic).