Chicken cooked dangerously below safe temp at a Triangle Popeyes: Restaurant scores (9/17)

The News & Observer publishes a weekly roundup of restaurant sanitation scores to keep you up-to-date on the health grades at Triangle dining spots.

Sanitation scores and their corresponding letter grades are used in North Carolina to assess restaurants’ adherence to rules and standards intended to mitigate and prevent the spread of food-borne illnesses.

You’ve likely seen sanitation grade cards at restaurants you’ve visited, and The N&O previously explained what those scores mean and how they’re calculated .

Here are sanitation scores in Triangle counties for the week of Sept. 10-16.

Wake County sanitation scores

The Wake County sanitation grades database shows that at least 100 restaurant inspections were completed Sept. 10-16.

• Most restaurants received an A grade, or a score of at least 90%.

• Two received a B grade, or a score of at least 80% but lower than 90%.

Popeyes (3699 New Bern Ave. in Raleigh) received a score of 88% during an inspection on Sept. 13.

• The restaurant was in violation of 22 standards. Of these, 11 were considered critical violations.

• Critical violations included dirty food containers “soiled with food particles and flour but stored as clean” and some pieces of chicken cooked as low as 32 degrees below proper temperature.

• Some violations were corrected during the inspection.

• The restaurant previously scored 94.5% in April 2024 and 86.5% in March 2023.

Subway (7016 GB Alford Hwy. in Holly Springs) received a score of 88% during an inspection on Sept. 10.

• The restaurant was in violation of 12 standards. Of these, six were considered critical violations.

• Critical violations included one side of a cooler turned completely off, another cooler in the front prep area that was “not operational” and chemical spray of OxiClean stored next to bread molds.

• Some violations were corrected during the inspection.

• The restaurant previously scored 86.5% in March 2024 and 87% in September 2023.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Wake County at wake-nc.healthinspections.us .

Durham County sanitation scores

The Durham County inspection management system shows 19 restaurant inspections were completed Sept. 10-16.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Durham County at bit.ly/3pVQfpG .

Orange County sanitation scores

The Orange County inspection management system shows that 11 restaurant inspections were completed Sept. 10-16.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Orange County at bit.ly/3eQqpxc .

Johnston County sanitation scores

The Johnston County sanitation inspections database shows that 14 restaurant inspections were completed Sept. 10-16.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Johnston County at johnston-nc.healthinspections.us .

Chatham County sanitation scores

The Chatham County inspections management system shows that three restaurant inspections were completed Sept. 10-16.

• All restaurants received an A grade.

You can search all restaurant inspections in Chatham County at bit.ly/3JfiHwq .