Month: February 2026

A well-known Chinese restaurant in East Cobb continues to struggle with health inspections and closed temporarily this week.

On a visit Tuesday to Tasty China, Cobb and Douglas Public Health inspectors gave the Powers Ferry Road eatery a grade of 58, or unsatisfactory.

That’s the second consecutive such “U” score for Tasty China, which got a score of 63 on July 11, 2025 (and subsequently scored an 80 on a re-inspection).

But in Tuesday’s inspection report for Tasty China (you can read it here), inspectors said that they recommended the restaurant close voluntarily to come into compliance after being cited for four major violations.

Those include not having proof of certified food safety management training programs for staff, not having a disinfectant and written procedures for cleaning vomiting/fecal incidents, lacking signed employee health agreements and having a dirty bulk ice machine.

Christopher Hutcheson, director of environmental health for Cobb and Douglas Public Health, told East Cobb News that the closure was recommended due to consecutive failing inspections, as specified in Georgia law.

All but the four violations cited above were corrected on-site Tuesday, Hutcheson said, but the restaurant agreed to close. He added that “once the correction of these remaining items was verified by the inspector, Tasty China was allowed to reopen” on Wednesday.

“A full follow-up inspection with a new score will be conducted within 10 days,” Hutcheson said.

Tasty China’s other violations include a variety of food storage temperature issues; moldy pineapples were observed in a walk-in cooler; uncovered foods were laying around in the kitchen; soda machine nozzles had black build-up; and there were unmarked dates on ready-to-eat foods.

One violation included the improper storage of pans of raw shrimp near pans of raw chicken in a prep cooler.

The restaurant also was deducted points for using hand sinks for other purposes and for allowing employees to store personal beverage cups above food and prep areas.

In addition, Tasty China was cited for not posting its most recent health inspection report in public view.

Inspectors had given Tasty China until March 6 to provide proof that it supplies on-site a disinfectant approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “effective against the Novovirus.”

The restaurant was ordered to establish written procedures for employees “when responding to vomiting or diarrheal events . . . The procedures shall address the specific actions employees must take to minimize the spread of contamination and the exposure of employees, consumers, food, and surfaces to vomitus or fecal matter.”

The restaurant also must prove that “all food service employees are made aware of their responsibility to report their health as it relates to symptoms/illnesses transmissable via food” and to clean the soda nozzles and bulk ice machines.

Tasty China, formerly located on Franklin Gateway in Marietta, relocated to Powers Ferry Road in 2023. It got a pre-opening inspection score of 100. In July 2024, Tasty China got a score of 82.

In July 2025, Tasty China’s score of 63 included some of the same issues that were cited on Tuesday, including a lack of disinfectant and vomit/fecal procedures, improper food storage, and build-up in the bulk ice machines.

Those violations were corrected on-site and no further corrective action was recommended by inspectors.

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