A popular Marietta restaurant received a failing health score of 43 out of 100 during a routine inspection last week, with inspectors finding serious food safety violations that put customers at risk.

What It Means For You: If you ate at The Marietta Local on Roswell Street this month, you may have been exposed to improperly handled food. The restaurant had to throw away multiple food items during the inspection.

What Happened: An inspector found 11 violations during the September 24 inspection.

A cook touched raw chicken, changed gloves without washing hands, then touched bread and clean equipment. The contaminated bread was thrown away.

Multiple foods were stored at unsafe temperatures, including butter sitting at 69 degrees when it should have been 41 degrees or colder.

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