Gwinnett Wings Restaurant Fails Health Inspection

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA — A food-service worker banged a trashcan with a pair of tongs, then used those tongs to serve chicken wings during a health inspection on Tuesday. That's just one of the reasons the restaurant earned a failing grade.

Crazy Wing, at 1455 Pleasant Hill Rd. in Lawrenceville, scored a 69/U on the inspection.

Aside from the tong-banging worker — who was instructed by inspectors to throw away the food touched with the tongs — an ice machine and soda machine had a "mold-like substance" in them. Salad dressing with milk in it was being stored at above the recommended temperature of 41 degrees and tongs were being stored in water that wasn't warm enough.

Single-use food storage buckets were being reused instead of discarded and the temperature in a cooler was two degrees warmer than it's supposed to be (43 degrees, instead of the recommended 41 degrees).

There was rust on a prep table shelf and the legs of the ice bin and parts of the walk-in cooler were "not easily cleanable," according to the report.

The score was a steep drop for Crazy Wing, which had scored a 97/A on its most recent inspection in April.

According to state policies, the restaurant will be inspected again in the next 10 days. If it has not improved by then, inspectors could require it to shut down until problems are addressed.

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