San Patricio County, Texas, posts a monthly Restaurant Scores report through its Environmental Health page. Read a row’s date, inspection type, listed findings and follow-up text together. A routine visit and a targeted return answer different questions. Do not turn a follow-up number into a replacement grade for the entire earlier inspection.
Start with the month, address and visit type
The county PDF is a monthly list, with the reporting period and publication date printed on its pages. The August report covers visits from August 1 through August 31, 2026, and is dated September 14, 2026. A document published in September can therefore describe an August visit. Do not substitute the publication date for the inspection date when you compare records.
Find the establishment and street address, then read each dated line underneath it. The Type column distinguishes a Routine inspection from a Violations Followup; the Score column reports a number for that line. A report may contain more than one visit at one address. Matching only a name, or taking the latest number without its type, can conceal which visit and which findings the number actually covers. If a business changed name or operator, ask the county to confirm the correct permit and address before joining the histories.
| Field in the August report | What it helps answer | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Report period and inspection date | Which month and day the visit belongs to | Conditions on the day you read the PDF |
Routine and its listed item points | What the county listed for that routine visit | That a printed deadline became a completed correction |
Violations Followup and its text | What the later, dated return actually mentions | A fresh comprehensive inspection of every original item |
Score on each line | The displayed number for that particular visit | A universal percentage, letter grade or current safety rating |
Why 30 and 0 are not competing grades
On page 5, an August 10, 2026 routine entry shows Score 30; its fourteen printed item values sum to 30. It sets three days for dish-machine compliance and ten for a hand-sink barrier. The same address has an August 14 Violations Followup, Score 0, with a note confirming dish-machine compliance. The note does not mention the barrier.
This supports a limited reading of two historical entries, with the establishment name omitted here. The first number matches that row’s item-point total; it is not a 30-out-of-100 passing grade. The second belongs to a different visit and a narrower narrative. Do not convert it to a 100-point pass or use this single pair to invent a countywide formula. Nor can either deadline establish when the operator completed work. An instruction, an operator’s action and an inspector’s verification can occur on different days.
If your question is specifically about the barrier, the safe answer from these two rows is narrower: the routine report set a period for it; the displayed follow-up speaks only to the dish machine. Ask San Patricio County Public Health Department for the relevant full inspection and any later follow-up or action record, identifying the address and both August dates. An omitted discussion in this newspaper-style summary is not proof that a later action did or did not happen.
Build a useful record trail
Write down the PDF’s reporting month and publication date first. Then make one line per inspection event: address, inspection date, type, score, the exact item or correction you are tracing, and what the later report explicitly says. Keep the full item list separate from a follow-up narrative. This simple record trail prevents a zero in a targeted return from overwriting the findings of the earlier routine visit.
For a question about another establishment, repeat the same method on its own lines rather than transferring the page 5 example to it. Use the county page to reach the current monthly report and any available earlier file. If a month is missing or the account of a correction is unclear, give the department the address, dates and item at issue when requesting the underlying records. Our reinspection follow-up guide helps separate an initial finding, a compliance period and a completed return. The inspection-report reading guide provides a way to read item-level observations once you have the full form.
The August PDF supports a dated, limited historical interpretation. It does not prove current safety, establish a closure or reopening, or resolve an item the follow-up did not mention. For operating status, request the dated order and any authorization to resume. Read the later document on its own terms and seek the missing record if the unresolved question matters to you.
Official sources checked October 16, 2026 UTC. San Patricio County Environmental Health and its linked August 2026 Restaurant Scores PDF.