One Tyler Restaurant Nearly Failed Their Latest Health Inspection

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Being in charge of and operating a restaurant in Tyler, Texas, or anywhere in East Texas is a major responsibility and undertaking. You've got to have an enticing menu, happy customers, discipline, and be able to pass inspections when the local health department arrives.

NET Health inspectors are out daily checking facilities that serve food to the public anywhere in Smith County, Texas. Of course, you think about inspectors stopping by restaurants, but NET Health inspectors also pay visits to grocery and convenience stores, food trucks, healthcare facilities, jails, nursing homes and hospitals, and schools and inspect them to make sure they comply with established health codes and procedures and serving up food safely to the public.

While the majority of restaurants around Tyler and East Texas comply with established protocols, some make a few mistakes but quickly adjust and correct the issue.

Then there are those with some major issues.

One Tyler area restaurant amassed 26 total demerits during their latest health inspection. While NET Health grades on a demerit scale instead of a letter grade, they do convert these demerits to a letter grade and this restaurant would have received a grade equivalent to a 'D' and border lining on an 'F'. We'll discover which restaurant received that distinction in the following photo gallery.

Before we get to the major issue, the following restaurants had a perfect or nearly perfect score when the local health inspector stopped by.

• Sonic Drive In - Hwy. 155 - Flint
• Hot Dogs, Dawgs - FM 2493 - Flint
• Subway - Hwy. 155 - Flint
• Truck Express - NNE Loop 323 - Tyler
• Taco Bell - Old Jaksonville Hwy. - Tyler
• Whataburger - Troup Hwy.
• Pizza Hut - Hwy. 110 - Whitehouse

Now let's take a look at the local restaurants that didn't fare so well in their latest inspection when the NET Health inspectors stopped by.