Pepper's Mexican Grill & Cantina
129 City Smitty Dr, Saint Marys, GA 31558
Passed · Apr 14, 2025 Directions
82
How the BiteKarma score works
Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.
At a glance
- Passed 4 of 5 graded inspections since 2023.
- No critical violations in the last two years.
- Last inspected Apr 14, 2025: passed with 5 violations. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
- Keeps coming up: Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean, cited 4 times, plus 8 other repeat issues.
Inspection history 5 visits
- 2025
- Passed Apr 14
Routine
5 violations
- Minor Food stored covered
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- 2024
- Passed Jul 19
Routine
2 violations
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Food stored covered
- 2023
- Passed Dec 20
Followup
5 violations
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, cleaned
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Insects, rodents, and animals not present
- Failed Dec 14
Routine
17 violations, 3 critical
- Critical Food separated and protected
- Critical Proper hot holding temperatures
- Critical Proper cold holding temperatures
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Utensils, equipment and linens: properly stored, dried, handled
- Minor In-use utensils: properly stored
- Minor Adequate handwashing facilities supplied and accessible
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Adequate ventilation and lighting; designated areas used
- Minor Insects, rodents, and animals not present
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, cleaned
- Minor Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use
- Minor Food properly labeled; original container
- Minor Approved thawing methods used
- Minor Food stored covered
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