ServSafe Food Protection Manager Facilities and Equipment

1.Mara runs the morning cafe. A boil-water notice is up on the city supply, and she still needs to fill the coffee carafes, rebuild the ice bin, and rinse the lettuce. What should she use until the notice ends?

2.Luis's diner received a boil-water notice at the start of lunch. The ice machine is still tied to the city line, and the salad cook is washing tomatoes in the prep sink from that tap. What is the right move for the ice and the tomatoes?

3.Priya's bakery keeps a staff drinking pitcher and rinses berries in the prep sink. Both come from the tap, and a boil-water notice covers that main. What should fill the pitcher and wash the berries?

4.Owen's food truck is hooked to a park spigot the city just placed under a boil-water notice. He fills the ice chest from that spigot and rinses apples there. What should he use for the ice and the apples until the notice ends?

5.Hana manages a hospital cafe under a building-wide boil-water notice. Last night's ice is still in the bin, and a case of grapes must be washed before the tray line. What should she do?

6.Derek's pizza shop was told the tap is unsafe until Thursday. He mixes dough with that tap water and sets out glasses of it for guests. What water belongs in the dough and the glasses until Thursday?

7.Sofia’s catering kitchen is under a boil-water notice. She plans to wash herbs and make bar ice from the tap, and to boil only the water she puts in guest carafes. What should she change?

8.Jamal's school kitchen received a boil-water notice during breakfast. Line pitchers are filled from the tap, and sliced melon is rinsed in that water before the salad bar. What should replace that tap water?

9.Elena's seafood counter rinses shrimp under the tap and builds the display ice from the same faucet. A boil-water notice was issued an hour ago. What should she use for the rinse and any new display ice?

10.Noah left the mop-sink hose in the basin with the nozzle under dirty water. The faucet is a plain hose bib with no vacuum breaker. What is wrong, and what fixes it?

11.Aisha's dish-room spray hose rests in a sink of soiled water. Nothing on that faucet stops water from flowing backward. What should she require before the hose is used again?

12.Grant ran a utility hose from a potable faucet to a pump sitting in a flooded floor drain. There is no backflow preventer on the faucet. What should he do?

13.Mei filled a bucket of floor cleaner in the janitor closet and left the hose end in the bucket. The hose bib has no vacuum breaker. What is the correction?

14.Carlos connected a hose from the kettle's potable fill line and dropped the other end into a mop bucket while it filled. No backflow device is on that line. What should change?

15.Brooke's bar hose lies in the dump sink, which is full of discarded drinks. The faucet has threads only, with no vacuum breaker. What does this setup need?

16.Ivan left the mop-bucket hose submerged overnight. The hose bib is a garden thread with no vacuum breaker. Morning staff are about to use that same faucet for a stockpot. What happens first?

17.Lila's chemical dispenser outlet sits below the flood rim of the mop sink, and the water line feeding it has no air gap or backflow device. What should she correct?

18.Theo's outdoor potable faucet feeds a hose he left in a trash can of rainwater used to soak floor mats. The faucet has no backflow preventer. What is the fix?

19.Rosa's only handwashing sink is stacked with sheet pans, so cooks cannot reach the faucet. The soap and paper towels are in a closet down the hall. What should she set up?

20.Felix's handwashing sink runs cold water only. The soap dish is empty, and there are no paper towels or a dryer. What does that sink need before staff depend on it?

21.Nadia finds the handwashing sink blocked by a rolling rack. The soap dispenser is empty, the towel roll is gone, and someone has been rinsing knives in the basin. What is the correction?

22.Omar's handwashing sink has soap and running hot and cold water, but there is no trash can, so used paper towels sit on the prep table. What should he add?

23.Quinn turned the handwashing sink into a dump for coffee grounds. Hot and cold water still run, but there is no soap at the sink. What should change before the next order?

24.Yuki's handwashing sink has soap, a hand dryer, hot and cold water, and a trash can. A speed rack is parked in front of it for the whole shift. What still has to change?

25.Andre's handwashing sink has soap and paper towels, but both supply valves are shut off, and a bus tub of cups is sitting in the basin. What should he do before service?

26.Camille stocked the handwashing sink, then stored clean cutting boards in the basin because the shelf was full. Soap, towels, and a trash can are present. What is the fix?

27.Hector's handwashing sink has hot and cold water and a dryer, but the only soap on the splash is a sanitizer jug, and a colander of greens is soaking in the basin. There is no trash can. What should he correct?

28.Ingrid's cook line is missing a floor tile beside the fryer. Mop water pools in the hole and never reaches the drain. What is the right repair?

29.Malik's dish room has acoustic ceiling tiles over the clean-dish racks. One tile is soft and stained, and bits of it fall when a rack rolls by. What should that ceiling become?

30.Tess's walk-in wall panel is peeled back, so the porous backing is exposed next to the food shelves. Staff wipe the backing and it stays damp. What repair fits a food-storage wall?

31.Paulo's prep-area floor is unfinished wood. Under the sink it is dark, swollen, and holding water. What floor belongs there?

32.Wren's ceiling above the slicer is open joists with peeling paint. Flakes land on the slicer table. What should that ceiling become?

33.Sasha's coving is gone along the cook line. Grease collects in the open gap where the floor meets the wall, and a mop cannot reach it. What is the repair?

34.Diego's quarry-tile floor has lost its grout under the grill. Dirty water sits in the channels and wicks under the next tiles. What should he do to the floor?

35.Fiona's dry-storage wall is unfinished drywall. A hole at cart height sheds gypsum dust onto the flour bags when people pass. What wall surface does this room need?

36.Caleb's ceiling above the salad table has a raw concrete patch that flakes when the cooler door slams. The rest of that ceiling is smooth and sealed. What should happen to the patch?

37.Amira's new slicer has no NSF mark and no equivalent the authority accepts. The guard is tied on with kitchen string. The rule she was given is NSF or equivalent. What should she do?

38.Jonah's prep table is NSF listed. He pushed it flush to the wall, and the legs are not sealed to the floor, so nobody can clean behind or under it. What does that install still need?

39.Keiko's NSF mixer paddle cracked. For the dinner rush a cook patched the crack with cardboard and tape. What repair is allowed on that paddle?

40.Rhett wants to puree soup on the cafe line with a home blender. It has no NSF mark and no equivalent certification the authority accepts. The stated standard is NSF or equivalent. What should puree that soup?

41.Bianca's reach-in is NSF listed and has room to clean around it. The door gasket is split and held together with twine. What should be done with the gasket?

42.Hassan's fryer carries an NSF mark. It sits so close to the wall that grease on the back cannot be reached. What should change about how it is installed?

43.Nora's can opener is NSF listed, but it is mounted so the gap behind the base cannot be cleaned, and the base is shimmed with a folded menu card. What is the fix?

44.Victor's dishwasher is an NSF unit on casters, so the pit can be cleaned. Tonight the rack guide is lashed on with string. What should happen before the machine runs?

45.Leila ordered a prep sink sold as commercial style, with no NSF mark and no equivalent listing. The installer will shove one side tight to the wall so that side cannot be cleaned. The stated rule is NSF or equivalent. What should she require?

46.Petra's lamp over the open salad expo is bare glass. Lettuce and cut tomatoes sit directly under it. What does that light need?

47.Simon's refrigerator thermometer is blank. The box feels cold, and a tray of raw chicken is on the bottom shelf. What should he do about the thermometer and the chicken?

48.Anika's shield over the bakery bench is cracked, and croissants are cooling on an open rack directly below the crack. What should she do before more product goes on that rack?

49.Cole's walk-in thermometer sits at 51°F and does not move when he shifts it to another shelf. The door has been closed, and cases of soup are inside. What is the useful next step?

50.Marisol's shield clips broke over the slicer. She screwed in another bare glass bulb so the slicer light would work. What belongs in that fixture before the slicer is used under it?

51.Everett's display-refrigerator thermometer is stuck at 32°F. A cup of water on the same shelf feels warm, and sliced fruit is above it. What should he rely on?

52.Gina's heat lamp over the exposed pizza line is bare glass. Pizzas sit uncovered under it through the dinner window. What is required of that lamp?

53.Tariq's prep light has a plastic shield, but the end cap is missing, and the lamp sits over an open hotel pan of soup. What should he correct?

54.Holly's line-cooler thermometer housing is cracked and the dial has fallen off. She has been checking the air with the back of her hand. Cooked noodles are in the cooler. What replaces that check?

55.Rafael's dumpster lids are warped and standing open. Bags of shrimp shells sit on the pavement beside the dumpster, near the kitchen door. What should he correct?

56.June's indoor cans are uncovered during service. The outdoor cans have not been washed in weeks, liquid pools under them, and flies are on the rims. What does this area need?

57.Kwame's dumpster was full, so the crew piled tied bags against the back wall overnight. The kitchen door opens beside that pile. What should he do with the waste?

58.Iris's outdoor cans have no lids, and she plans to leave them that way until the weekly haul. Food waste is visible above the rims. What should happen today?

59.Bennett washed the dumpster pad, then left food waste in an open can with the lid on the ground beside it. What is still wrong?

60.Chloe's cans are lined and the lids fit, but grease and old waste are caked on the outsides, and flies cover the rims. What additional step do the cans need?

61.Mateo's crew sets garbage bags on the dock every afternoon for a night porter. The bags stay there, uncovered, through dinner service. What should replace that habit?

62.Adele's recycling bin has no lid. Food-soiled cardboard is piled above the rim, mixed with scraps from the prep table. What should she change?

63.Spencer last washed the outdoor cans a month ago. Today they overflow, the lids sit ajar, and leachate runs from the cans toward the back door. What condition should he restore?

64.Naomi sees sewage seeping from the floor drain across the cook line. The fryer and the prep table stand in that water. What should happen to service in that area?

65.Ellis's dish machine is backing up. Wastewater has touched the clean-dish landing and the inside of the machine, and a rack of plates is still in it. What should he do with the machine and those plates?

66.Farah's restroom line backed up into the hall that opens onto the pantry. Sewage reached the bottom shelf of dry goods. What happens to that shelf and those goods?

67.Hugo's prep sink overflowed with sewage from a blocked branch line. The basin and the cutting board beside it were in the flow. What may he keep using right now?

68.Jade's bar floor drain erupted during service. Sewage wet the ice-bin stand and the speed rail, and guests are still ordering. What is the bar's next step?

69.Marcus finds sewage in the mop sink and across the floor to the walk-in threshold. Cases of produce are sitting on the floor in that path. What should he do with the entrance and that produce?

70.Ophelia's three-compartment sink will not drain, and sewage has risen into the sanitize bay. Clean pots are sitting in that bay. What is the status of the sink and those pots?

71.Ravi's grease trap overflowed under the back door. Sewage water ran under the dish table and wet the lower shelf and the floor around it. What should the dish area do?

72.Selena's floor sink beside the tilt skillet backed up during service. The skillet's lower frame and a utensil crock on the floor were splashed. What should she stop using?

73.Tomas finds mouse droppings on the flour shelf and gnaw marks on a bag of rice. The back door does not latch. What is his first response?

74.Vera sees cockroach droppings in the dish-machine housing and a gap under the delivery door about a finger wide. What should she do first?

75.Wesley finds gnawed bread bags in dry storage and droppings along the wall. The screen door has been propped open all morning for the trash run. What is the first response?

76.Ximena's morning check shows droppings in the cabinet under the register and a missing door sweep, so the side door will not seal. Crackers in that cabinet are torn open. What should she do first?

77.Yusuf finds tooth marks on a cheese box in the walk-in and droppings on the pallet under it. The receiving door is warped and will not close. What comes first?

78.Zara sees roach droppings on the prep-table legs and a hole around a pipe. The alley door bounces open whenever a cart hits it. What is the right order of action?

79.Aaron finds a nest of shredded napkins and droppings behind the water heater, plus gnawed tubing. The alley door has no closer and stands open. What should he do first?

80.Bridget's can rack has droppings on the top cans and gnawed labels. The dock door is tied open through lunch. What is her first response?

81.Dante finds droppings in the server station and gnaw marks on a box of crackers beside the tea urn. The side door drags and stays ajar. What should happen first?

82.Esther, a cook, bought ant spray at the hardware store and laid a bead of it along the prep-table wall, two feet from an open pan of sauce. What is allowed here?

83.Finn stored a closed, labeled pesticide can on the shelf directly above the fryer oil. What is the storage correction?

84.Greta has an unlabeled bottle of insecticide in the chemical cage, beside the sanitizer used on dining tables. A cook plans to spray the baseboards before guests sit. What should she require instead?

85.Haruto is waiting on a licensed operator who already placed gel bait. A line cook wants to add a hardware-store spray under the stove before the operator returns. What is the answer?

86.Imani's manager left a pesticide in its original box in dry storage, on the pallet next to the pasta. What storage rule did that break?

87.Jasper set off a home fogger in the kitchen after close and left the cutting boards on the table under the mist. He is not a licensed applicator. What replaces this plan?

88.Kira stored rodent bait blocks in a hotel pan on the chemical shelf. The pan matches the pans used for chopped herbs. What should change?

89.Lionel told the dishwasher to pour a pesticide concentrate around the floor drains, using the same bucket the dishwasher uses for floor cleaner. What is wrong with that assignment?

90.Mina keeps a locked cabinet for chemicals well away from food. During the rush a cook took a roach spray from a purse and misted the pass while plates were going out. What should Mina enforce?

91.Nico's deck oven is on the truck for a Friday install. The local authority requires a plan review before that oven is installed, and the review is not approved. What may the crew do on Friday?

92.Odette was told a plan review is required before her new walk-in is installed. The crew wants to set the box tonight and file the drawings in the morning. What is the sequence?

93.Pavel is adding a hood over a new charbroiler. The city requires a permit before the hood and the broiler are installed. The application is still on his desk. What is the next step?

94.Ruth is replacing a two-compartment sink with a three-compartment sink. The health department said the drawing must be approved before the plumber starts. The plumber is free this afternoon. What should she tell the plumber?

95.Sergio's food truck needs a new potable-water tank and pump cut into the counter. The county requires a plan review before that equipment is installed. The parts are in the truck tonight. What is the correct order?

96.Talia wants to move the mop sink to make room for a new prep table. The authority requires approval of the revised plan before that work. The table is already in the dining room. What should she do?

97.Uri ordered an NSF dishwasher that needs a new floor drain. The inspector said the permit must be issued before installation. The unit is sitting in the hallway. What does he do with it?

98.Violet's sushi display case arrived this morning. Plan review is required before the case is installed, and the review meeting is next Tuesday. An empty slot on the line would fit the case. What happens this morning?

99.Walter's school kitchen is adding a tilt skillet. The plan has not been submitted, and the authority requires that review before the skillet is installed. The skillet is in the hall outside the kitchen. What is the instruction?

100.Yasmin's staff restroom has no soap and no towels. A cook washes her hands in the prep sink because it is closer to the line. What should Yasmin correct?

101.Zach's only toilet during the shift is in a locked office, so he has no staff restroom he can use. He rinses his hands in the salad sink. What should be available instead?

102.Abby watches a prep cook wash hands in the produce sink after taking out the trash. The staff restroom hand sink is stocked and open down the hall. Where should those hands have been washed?

103.Callum's restroom hand sink is out of soap. He uses the wash bay of the three-compartment sink as his hand sink. What should he use instead?

104.Dina's staff restroom is blocked by linen carts, so people wash their hands in the prep sink beside the mixer. What should she change?

105.Emmett used the staff restroom, then dipped his hands in the prep area's sanitizer bay. The restroom hand sink was stocked with soap and towels. What should have finished that restroom trip?

106.Fatima's kitchen plan leaves out a staff restroom and labels the vegetable sink as the handwashing sink. What does the plan still need?

107.Gavin washed his hands in the prep sink with the soap kept there for the vegetable brush, then picked up rolls. The staff restroom hand sink was stocked and free. What should he have done?

108.Helena's restroom is posted for guests only. A sign sends staff to wash their hands at the mop sink, and there is no staff handwashing sink. What does the operation still need to provide?