{"id":448302,"date":"2026-09-26T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448302\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:40:12","slug":"refrigeration-issues-found-at-fort-worth-schools-in-latest-tarrant-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448302\/","title":{"rendered":"Refrigeration issues found at Fort Worth schools in latest Tarrant inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One Tarrant County restaurant closed voluntarily, and health concerns were noted in multiple school kitchens in the latest round of county health inspections, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The database compiled by the Star-Telegram contains information from Sep. 6 through Sep. 19 and 318 inspections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tarrant County&#8217;s public health inspections function on a 100-point system, where a score of 100 is considered perfect and a score of 70 is considered extremely poor. Tarrant County inspectors visit every food establishment in the county except those in Fort Worth, Arlington, Euless and North Richland Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Golden Chick 1338, located at <a data-ylk=\"slk:3209 Forest Hill Circle in Forest Hill;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/3209+Forest+Hill+Cir,++Forest+Hill,+TX+76140?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">3209 Forest Hill Circle in Forest Hill<\/a>, had a score of 95. The restaurant closed voluntarily to address issues with pest control and cold storage. Inspectors noted several live roaches in food preparation areas and a walk-in cooler with a temperature reading of 50 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lisa&#8217;s Chicken &amp; Seafood, located at <a data-ylk=\"slk:816 South Crowley Road in Crowley,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/816+S+Crowley+Rd,++Crowley,+TX+76036?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">816 South Crowley Road in Crowley,<\/a> had a score of 86. Inspectors found mouse droppings in a back electrical room, along with missing ceiling tiles and holes in the wall. The establishment was ordered to clean and seal the room and have pest control out within the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Health concerns were reported in at least three elementary schools:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Westcliff Elementary School, a Fort Worth ISD campus located at 4300 Clay Avenue, was ordered to switch to serving prepackaged lunches after inspectors found coolers at unsafe temperatures. In a follow-up inspection, officials stipulated that regular lunches would not resume until the school provided documentation that the refrigerators had been serviced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">D. McRae Elementary School, a Fort Worth ISD campus located at 3316 Avenue N, was also ordered to serve packaged lunches due to refrigeration issues. Turkey sandwiches and produce in the coolers registered temperatures of 44 to 50 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oaklawn Elementary School, a Fort Worth ISD campus located at 3220 Hardeman Street, also had issues with refrigeration and inspectors noted holding temperatures of 57 degrees, according to the report. Temperature logs near the coolers appeared to have been falsified, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some data analysis in this story was conducted using AI. For more information on how the Star-Telegram and McClatchy newsrooms are using AI, go <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/article280707640.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Tarrant County restaurant closed voluntarily, and health concerns were noted in multiple school kitchens in the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,8257,117,107186,28615,122],"class_list":["post-448302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-isd","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-health-concerns","tag-health-inspections","tag-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}