Tipton County’s latest round of food safety inspections, covering Aug. 24-28, 2026, produced reports on seven inspections across five restaurants and two elementary school cafeterias, with scores ranging from a perfect 100 down to a concerning 68.

El Presidente Mexican Restaurant on Highway 51 in Covington posted the week’s lowest score, a 68, during a routine inspection on Aug. 26. Inspectors documented a dozen individual violations touching nearly every corner of the kitchen.

The report opens with a priority violation citing the person in charge for inadequate control over food storage and sanitation practices, tied to four separate walk-in cooler violations under the food-separation code and a failed sanitizer test at the dish machine.

Inspectors found uncovered cooked chicken wings and cactus stored on open shelves, raw fish stored above an uncovered container of sliced green onions, a hamburger chub sitting directly on a case of ready-to-eat pineapples, and raw eggs in the shell stored above a container of pico de gallo — all inside the same walk-in cooler. The dish machine tested with no sanitizer present; the person in charge arranged for dishes to be finished with a manual sanitizing step in the three-compartment sink, which then tested at 100 ppm.

Additional violations included an employee drink without a lid left on a prep table where beef was being cut (discarded on the spot), a half-gallon of unrefrigerated orange juice in the storeroom (about a pound and a half of product was embargoed), an unlabeled spray bottle of purple liquid near the dish machine, wet-nested metal pans, food debris hanging from walk-in cooler shelving, and trash cans without lids in the women’s restroom.

Inspectors noted this marks the second consecutive inspection with priority violations under the food-separation code, which triggers a formal repeat-violation warning letter requirement for the restaurant.

Outlaw BBQ in Munford scored an 88 on its routine inspection. Inspectors embargoed roughly 80 pounds of potato salad, coleslaw, and other products after finding a walk-in cooler not holding proper temperature; a 90-day follow-up has been ordered to confirm the unit is repaired or replaced.

Follow-up inspections

Two follow-up inspections wrapped up this week, both showing marked improvement.

Marco’s Pizza #8504 in Atoka was inspected twice on Aug. 27. A routine visit turned up two minor issues — an employee drinking a Red Bull in the dough-making area and dust buildup on the pizza oven — for a score of 94. A same-day follow-up found one lingering cleaning item still open and closed at 99.

Crafted Coffee in Covington followed a similar path on Aug. 25, moving from 93 on its routine inspection (no sanitizer detected in the three-compartment sink, a broken refrigerator thermometer, and a wet wiping cloth on the counter) to 98 on a same-day follow-up, after the missing sanitizer issue was corrected on site.

Los Alebrijes in Atoka posted the week’s most dramatic turnaround. Its routine inspection on Aug. 19 scored a 79, with a dozen violations spanning improper handwashing substitutes, an unrefrigerated slicer, three separate dirty-equipment citations, and an employee drink stored in a reach-in freezer. Last week’s follow-up on Aug. 27 closed out at 94, though six items — thermometer accuracy, wiping cloths, in-use utensil storage, equipment cleanliness, and ventilation — remained open on recheck.

Other inspections

• Brighton Elementary Cafeteria – a perfect 100 with no violations noted.
• Drummonds Elementary Cafeteria – 95, docked only for a dish machine that failed its sanitizer test.

Why we do this

Any establishment that serves food, operates a recreational water facility, provides childcare, or offers personal services like tattooing or cosmetology is subject to routine health inspections – and those results are public record.

We publish them here because you deserve to know whether the public places where you spend time are meeting basic health and safety standards.

We’re not here to shame anyone; most establishments score well, and the ones who don’t are often actively working to fix it. We’re here to bring you a full, transparent picture.