The Mexican restaurant in Athens receives a failed health assessment of 63 – 3b media news

On May 7, 2025, the Ministry of Health from Tennessee carried out a routine inspection for food services at Mexi-Wing II at 2547 Decatur Pike in Athens, which led to a lack of score of 63. A failed health inspection assessment is less than 70.

The inspection resulted in several critical violations, including a lack of knowledge of the person responsible in relation to proper cooking and restoration temperatures and the lack of an employed disease policy.

The problems of food safety included an employee, which included cut lemons with bare hands for customer drinks, improper cooling of queso (67 ° f) and raw beef (51 ° F) and a salsa cooler of 50 ° f. Hot hurt injuries were found with beef and chicken on the stove at 127 ° F, and the flan and boiled noodles were missing.

Storage and labeling contains unrolled chemical bottles with food, cinnamon in an unrolled container and sauces that were stored under raw meat in the walk-in fridge.

Additional violations included the use of cardboard as a shelf lining, missing thermometers in refrigerators, wet towels that were not stored in disinfectant, a pan in the hand sink, dirty floors and no air gap on the ice machine. The employees were also observed how they wore bracelets and watches, and large amounts of queso were not properly cooled in deep containers.

The compliant areas included proper food procurement, the maintenance of the wash basin, the cleaning up of food contact surfaces and compliance with the TN Niche smoking protection law.

Photo by Joseph McAfee.