Chick-fil-A says every year the average teacher spends about $400 of their own money to provide school supplies for their classrooms.

“Nationwide, teachers are spending more than a billion dollars of their own money every year to stock their classrooms for students.”

So the restaurant in Southaven wants to help the county’s educators keep more of their own cash this year. The store’s management is asking for the community’s help filling a huge truck with school supplies. In return, donors will receive a coupon for a free spicy chicken sandwich.

“There will be a giant truck parked outside the store from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ready to be filled with unused school supplies. All types of supplies are needed, including pens, pencils, notebook paper, drawing paper, crayons, markers, calculators, rulers, book covers, folders and anything else that will help teachers get their classrooms ready for the upcoming school year.”

There's a reason why "pink slime in the ice machine" rears its ugly head so often on Memphis-Shelby County restaurant inspection reports.

The ice machine is one of the "hot spots" on a health department environmentalist's checklist, according to Tom Powell, a former Mid-South restaurateur.

"The mold on the door, no one likes to clean it, or many are unsure how to adequately clean it without chemically contaminating the ice,” Powell said.

That's not the first area that should be inspected, though, he said.

According to Powell, right after the front door, a health inspector should walk in the walk-in cooler.

“Boxes of fruit or produce that are left in the walk-in cooler are often forgotten if the stock is not rotated,” he said. “Then you have rotting produce in the cooler.”

Food temperatures are a "hot spot," too, for obvious reasons.