No person, firm, corporation, or association operating, managing, or conducting any hotel, cafe, restaurant, dining car, drugstore, soda water fountain, meat market, bakery, confectionery, or liquor dispensary, or any other establishment where food or drink of any kind is served or permitted to be served to the public, shall furnish to any person any dish, receptacle, or utensil used in eating, drinking, or conveying food if such dish, receptacle, or utensil has not been washed after each service until clean to the sight and touch in warm water containing soap or alkali cleansers. After cleaning, all glasses, dishes, silverware, and other receptacles and utensils shall be placed in wire cages and immersed in a still bath of clear water heated to a minimum temperature of one hundred seventy degrees (170°) F for at least three (3) minutes, or two (2) minutes at one hundred eighty degrees (180°) F. As an alternative method for cleaning and sterilizing dishes, receptacles or utensils as herein described, such dishes, receptacles and utensils may be sterilized by being soaked in a strong solution of chlorine of a strength not less than one hundred (100) parts per million for not less than five (5) minutes, subsequent to any use. Upon removal from the hot water, all glasses, dishes, silverware and other receptacles and utensils shall be stored in such a manner as not to become contaminated. Provided that the city health officer may approve other equally effective methods of treatment by steam or hot water that meet with the minimum requirements for the safety of the public health, as prescribed by the state board of health, that are not inconsistent with this division. When paper receptacles, ice cream cones, or other single-service utensils are used for serving food or drinks, they must be kept in a sanitary manner, protected from dust, flies, and other contamination.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.901; 2009 Code, sec. 6.04.061)