SA Hot Chicken Public record

KFC #3038

9639 POTRANCO RD, San Antonio, 78251
Area: Far West Side  ·  Metro Health licence 1782443

Chain location
42.1Bird Score

Mixed record · rank 50 of 112

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Latest health inspection

98/100 on May 26, 2026 (72 days ago)

Inspections start at 100 and lose points for each violation found. 69 or below is a failing inspection. A score describes one visit on one day — Metro Health says so itself — not the condition of the business today.

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Inspection history — 6 on record

Open any inspection to see what the inspector actually found, in plain English, with the Food Code section it was cited under.

May 26, 2026 98 2 findings
Cleanliness

Equipment or utensils were not clean

Split into two standards: anything that touches food must be clean to sight and touch, and everything else must be free of built-up grease, dust and debris. This is the most cited line in the whole code.

“Ensure handles to all equipment are clean to sight and touch.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Food Code 4-601.11(C) — Equipment, Food-Contact Surfaces, Nonfood-Contact Surfaces, and Utensils · inspection item 42

Cleanliness

The premises were not cleaned often enough

Floors, walls, shelving, the areas under and behind equipment. This is the finding for build-up in the places nobody wants to reach.

Food Code 6-501.12 — Cleaning, Frequency and Restrictions

Dec 11, 2025 98 2 findings
Cleanliness

Equipment or utensils were not clean

Split into two standards: anything that touches food must be clean to sight and touch, and everything else must be free of built-up grease, dust and debris. This is the most cited line in the whole code.

“Clean all non-food contact surfaces of equipment.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Food Code 4-601.11(C) — Equipment, Food-Contact Surfaces, Nonfood-Contact Surfaces, and Utensils · inspection item 42

Cleanliness

The premises were not cleaned often enough

Floors, walls, shelving, the areas under and behind equipment. This is the finding for build-up in the places nobody wants to reach.

“Clean below and behind all equipment.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Food Code 6-501.12 — Cleaning, Frequency and Restrictions · inspection item 45

Jun 5, 2025 99 2 findings
Cleanliness

Equipment or utensils were not clean

Split into two standards: anything that touches food must be clean to sight and touch, and everything else must be free of built-up grease, dust and debris. This is the most cited line in the whole code.

“Clean below and sides of all equipment. Ensure flour is removed from crevices and walls.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Food Code 4-601.11(C) — Equipment, Food-Contact Surfaces, Nonfood-Contact Surfaces, and Utensils · inspection item 42

Cleanliness

Non-food surfaces had built-up grease or debris

Shelving, equipment exteriors, fryer sides and floor-level equipment. Build-up feeds pests and eventually falls into food.

“Nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment shall be kept free of an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, and other debris.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Food Code 4-602.13 — Nonfood-Contact Surfaces

Jan 7, 2025 95 2 findings
Chemical storage

A sanitizer did not meet the required criteria

Only specific sanitizers at specific concentrations are approved for food-contact surfaces.

“several sani buckets testing well below 200ppm. Utilize test strips to ensure that sanitizer buckets are with correct concentration. You may change sanitizer every 4 hours, when water is visibly soiled or as needed.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Food Code 7-204.11 — Sanitizers, Criteria · inspection item 18

Management & permits

A Texas Certified Food Manager requirement was not met

Texas rule 25 TAC §228.31 — a certified food manager must be employed, present during operating hours, and the certificate posted where it can be seen.

“Employees unable to show proof of Food Handler Certifications. All employees handling/preparing food are to be Food Handler Certified and a copy of certificate must be made available upon request.”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Texas rule 25 TAC §228.31 · inspection item 22

Jul 11, 2024 98 1 finding
Management & permits

A Texas Certified Food Manager requirement was not met

Texas rule 25 TAC §228.31 — a certified food manager must be employed, present during operating hours, and the certificate posted where it can be seen.

“no record or proof of employees being food handler certified. Correction: Establishment must keep record of food handler certificates on property at all times”Inspector’s note · SA Metro Health

Texas rule 25 TAC §228.31 · inspection item 22

Feb 2, 2024 100 No violations recorded

✓ Metro Health recorded no violations at this inspection.

What these numbers do and do not mean

An inspection score describes one visit on one day. It is what one inspector recorded on one date at one address — Metro Health says so itself. It is not a standing condition, not a grade for the food, and not a prediction about your lunch. A kitchen that scored 88 in March may be spotless today, and one that scored 100 may not be.

A 311 complaint is a phone call, not a finding. The city records that a member of the public called. It is not a citation, not an investigation result, and not evidence that anything was wrong. The city files it against an address, so where two food businesses share one, neither the record nor we can tell them apart. We publish the count with its denominator and let you weigh it.

Awards are reported, not endorsed. Every recognition on this site carries its publisher, its year and a link to the page we read it on. We did not judge those contests and we do not vouch for them; where a publisher named a business rather than an address, the page says so.

Absence of data is never rendered as a finding. No inspection on record means no Bird Score — never a zero, never quietly ranked last. No award found means we searched 172 recognitions from 13 publishers and found none, which is a statement about press coverage and not about cooking.

If something here is wrong, we will fix it. Every figure links to the record it came from. Email us with the correction and we will check it against the source and correct it within 48 hours, whether or not you are a customer. How to request a correction.