GREGG COUNTY — A popular eatery has reopened after closing due to health inspection violations. Cheddar’s Casual Cafe, in Longview, remained closed Tuesday early afternoon after city health inspectors found eight critical violations and gave the restaurant a score of D. Longview environmental health personnel inspected the restaurant, U.S. 259 North and Hawkins Parkway, Monday afternoon and found several violations.<\/p>\n
According to municipal records, Cheddar’s had eight critical violations, including improper cooling of cooked and prepared foods, improper handling of ready-to-eat foods and poor hygienic practices. The restaurant was cited for its fourth-ever violation of temperature requirements, the kitchen salad cooler at 57 degrees – another fourth violation – and the inspector’s finding of an “infestation of flies on everything, clean equipment, utensils, food contact surfaces and walls.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GREGG COUNTY — A popular eatery has reopened after closing due to health inspection violations. Cheddar’s Casual Cafe, in Longview, remained closed Tuesday early afternoon after city health inspectors found eight critical violations and gave the restaurant a score of D. Longview environmental health personnel inspected the restaurant, U.S. 259 North and Hawkins Parkway, Monday … Continue reading Restaurant Reopened after Health Violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 10:50:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140485,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140255\/revisions\/140485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}