24 Tyler Area Restaurants Inspected – 1 Shut Down Due To Health Code Violations

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It is the job of the Northeast Texas Public Health District (NET Health) to inspect Tyler, Texas area restaurants and any establishment that serves food to the public to make sure they are doing so properly and not endangering public health.

NET Health inspectors are out daily inspecting restaurants, schools, healthcare facilities, convenience stores, grocery stores, and mobile food establishments and giving them immediate feedback on their business operation along with a grade of their performance. Every restaurant strives for perfection, but some slip occasionally and end up having to address some issues.

Those issues could be:

• procedural - proper paperwork or training of employeees
• cleanliness - not only of the dining room, but the kitchen, prep area, refrigeration/freezer, even restrooms
• mechanical or plumbing - equipment isn't properly installed or issues with plumbing
• food handling or storage - prepared foods not being held at proper temperatures or being mislabeled and stored improperly
  or other issues

Once the inspection of the establishment is complete, NET Health will score them on a demerit system. NET Health operates on a zero-and-up scale, unlike other health departments that give a letter grade. So the closer to '0' a restaurant is, the better they performed on their inspection report. The higher the number, the more issues they had.

Taking a look at the inspection reports from the previous week, one Tyler restaurant had a total of 31 demerits and was shut down by NET Health. NET Health is scheduled to revisit this restaurant today (November 8th), but that report hasn't been made public yet, and whether or not their permit to serve food was reestablished.