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Florida’s restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you.

For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action, visit our Marion County restaurant inspections site.

Here’s the breakdown for recent health inspections in Marion County for the week of Feb. 12-18, 2024. Please note that some more recent, follow-up inspections may not be included here.

Disclaimer: The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation describes an inspection report as a ‘snapshot’ of conditions present at the time of the inspection. On any given day, an establishment may have fewer or more violations than noted in their most recent inspection. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment.

For full restaurant inspection details, visit our Marion County restaurant inspection site.

Which Marion County restaurants got perfect scores on their health inspections?

These restaurants met all standards during their Feb. 12-18 inspections and no violations were found.

** Restaurants that failed an inspection and aced a follow-up inspection in the same week

Which Marion County restaurants were temporarily closed by inspectors?

These restaurants failed their Feb. 12-18 inspections and were temporarily closed. Follow-upinspections are required.

5400 SW College Rd, Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 12

Facility Temporarily Closed: Operations ordered stopped until violations are corrected.

18 total violations, with 6 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Employee switched from working with raw food to ready-to-eat food without washing hands. Female cook placed burger on grill with gloved hand, removed glove then poured fries into fryer without first washing hands.
• High Priority – Employee touched soiled apron/clothes and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Female employee on cookline touched apron than began breading fish without washing hands.
• High Priority – Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Two live roaches on floor on cookline under hand sink and prep table containing waffle iron. One live roach under base of hand sink on cookline. Two live roaches on partition wall between prep table near mop sink and drain boards for dish machine. **Warning**
• High Priority – Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Black pepper like marks on wall under prep table on cookline containing waffle iron. **Warning**
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. Potatoes being held on time does not have time of 9 am documented in written plan or else where. Manager stated the potatoes are taken out at 9 am and discarded every day at 1 pm. Documentation provided onsite were updated to include time during this inspection.
• High Priority – Toxic substance/chemical improperly stored. Employee prescription medication stored on shelf over spinach in walk in cooler. Two grey labeled degreaser chemical bottles on shelf with condiments in server station. All were moved during this inspection. **Corrected On-Site**

5400 SW College Rd, Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 13

Facility Temporarily Closed: Operations ordered stopped until violations are corrected.

3 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

• High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Two live roaches on floor on cookline under hand sink and prep table containing waffle iron. One live roach under base of hand sink on cookline. Two live roaches on partition wall between prep table near mop sink and drain boards for dish machine. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-13: Two live roaches in gaskets on reach in freezer on cookline. Two live roaches in door of reach in make table on cookline. Two live roaches on wheel under oven. One live roach on wall in prep area. Manager began killing roaches. **Admin Complaint** **Corrective Action Taken**
• High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Black pepper like marks on wall under prep table on cookline containing waffle iron. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-13: No change. **Admin Complaint**

5400 SW College Rd, Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 13

Facility Temporarily Closed: Operations ordered stopped until violations are corrected.

3 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

• High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Two live roaches on floor on cookline under hand sink and prep table containing waffle iron. One live roach under base of hand sink on cookline. Two live roaches on partition wall between prep table near mop sink and drain boards for dish machine. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-13: Two live roaches in gaskets on reach in freezer on cookline. Two live roaches in door of reach in make table on cookline. Two live roaches on wheel under oven. One live roach on wall in prep area. Manager began killing roaches. **Admin Complaint** **Corrective Action Taken** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-13: One live roach on wheel under cooking equipment. One live roach between wall and clean dish rack in ware wash area. One live roach on wall behind shelf over prep table containing waffle iron. All were killed and discarded. **Admin Complaint** **Corrective Action Taken**
• High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Black pepper like marks on wall under prep table on cookline containing waffle iron. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-13: No change. **Admin Complaint** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-13: No change. **Admin Complaint**

Which Marion County restaurants had high priority violations?

103 SE First Ave., Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 14

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

5 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Container of medicine improperly stored. At the dry storage area, medicines stored above single service items, manager moved. **Corrected On-Site**
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Reach-in cooler at the cook line in house dressing made with sour cream 48F, manager moved to freezer. **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. At the cook line, rice 102F, Manager moved to oven to reheated. **Corrective Action Taken**

18976 E. Highway 40, Silver Springs

Routine Inspection on Feb. 12

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

9 total violations, with 1 high-priority violation

• High Priority – Dented/rusted cans present. See stop sale. Lobster sauce can dented.

2701 SR 200, Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 16

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

14 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Female employee ringing up customers and touching soiled register screen put on gloves and began making sandwiches without washing hands.
• High Priority – Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Female employee touched face with gloved hand and continued to make sandwiches without washing hands.
• High Priority – Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet. No device located on hose connection side of splitter. **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**

24 SE First Ave., Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 15

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

17 total violations, with 6 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Employee touched bare body part and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Male employee at the cook line, touched his face with gloved hands and grab a cleaned container, inspector instructed to stop and washed hands. **Corrected On-Site**
• High Priority – Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands – food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. At the bar area, female employee touching cut fruits whit bare hands, (no observable cross contamination observed).
• High Priority – Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. At the cook line, raw sausage balls above cooked grits, manger moved and stored properly. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
• High Priority – Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled. Male employee at the cook line wearing gloves, touches soiled surfaces and then grab bread and placed on the grill, Inspector instructed to removed gloves and washed his hands. **Corrected On-Site**
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Reach-in cooler at the cook line (drawers) 45F), raw sausage 47F, raw beef 43F, raw fish 41F and 44F. At the server area, eggs 44F(moved to freezer 43F). **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food held using time as a public health control marked with a time that exceeds the 4-hour limit. See stop sale. At the cook line, grits cakes no time marked, manager marked. **Corrected On-Site**

18478 E Hwy 40, Silver Spgs

Routine Inspection on Feb. 12

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

15 total violations, with 5 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands – food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Female employee placed fried calamari into the basket with bare hands.
• High Priority – Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. One flying insect at the kitchen area near back door.
• High Priority – Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature when stored in a freezer – not all products commercially packaged. Near back door, observed raw beef stored above raw calamari, also raw meats above ready to eat hot dogs, manager stored properly. **Corrected On-Site**
• High Priority – Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food not consumed/sold within 7 days after opening/preparation. See stop sale. At the server station, milk date marked 02/02/24.
• High Priority – Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. At the triple sink, black hose connected no backflow installed **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**

809 N. Magnolia Ave., Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 16

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

24 total violations, with 5 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Female employee entered kitchen, placed drink on table, put on gloves and began removing buns from package without washing hands. **Warning**
• High Priority – Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Female employee touched face then continued to prepare food without washing hands. **Warning**
• High Priority – Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Pan of great northern beans with blue and green growth in walk in cooler. **Warning**
• High Priority – Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Female employee sharpened knife and continued to slice onions without washing, rinsing, or sanitizing knife.
• High Priority – Stop Sale issued due to food originating from an unapproved source. One pan of barbeque meat opened with no label left behind by unauthorized kitchen personnel. Unable to determine when pan was opened. **Warning**

5400 SW College Rd, Ocala

Routine Inspection on Feb. 12

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

17 total violations, with 4 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. 0 ppm. Machine was primed then 100 ppm.
• High Priority – Employee touched soiled apron/clothes and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Male employee touched apron the. Continued to pick up plate without washing hands. Male employee entered kitchen and picked up a late without washing hands. **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
• High Priority – Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food not consumed/sold within 7 days after opening/preparation. See stop sale. Two pans of alfredo sauce in walk in cooler near mop sink has a date mark of 2/5/2024, discard date should be 2/11/2023.
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. In ice bath in server station: pasta 60F. Manager stated pasta has been in ice less than three hours prior. Product was pushed further into ice. Discussed Time as a Public Health Control (TPHC) with manager and provided documentation. In reach in cooler at front counter: ranch dressing 55F, in unit less that three hours. Manager moved to different unit. **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**

5803 SE Hwy 484, Belleview

Routine Inspection on Feb. 15

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

13 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Nonfood-grade containers used for food storage – direct contact with food. Lowe’s and Home Depot buckets used for seasonings.
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety, commercially processed food reheating for hot holding not heated to a minimum temperature of 135 degrees Fahrenheit in all parts. Hot dogs 110-125F, manager stated they were placed in hot holding Hot holding unit at 3:30 pm. Time now is 5:30. Tempurature in unit was increased then 148F. **Corrective Action Taken**

3215 SW College Rd, Ocala

Complaint Inspection on Feb. 16

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

2 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

• High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Male employee entered kitchen from dining area and began packing up Togo boxes without washing hands. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-16: Male employee entered kitchen and made drinks without washing hands. **Admin Complaint**
• High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Female employee picked up peel of onion from floor then touched peeled onion with same hand without first washing hands. Male employee with gloved hands picked up food from floor placed in trash then touched apron and continued to pull fries from fryer without washing hands and changing gloves. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2024-02-16: Male employee touched dirty dishes then put away clean dishes without first washing hands. Male employee drank from cup then continued cooking without washing hands. Female employee scratched face then continued to make drinks without washing hands. Female employee with gloved hand wiped prep table with wet towel then touched clean dish without washing hands. Female employee garnished salad with cheese after touching apron without washing hands. **Admin Complaint**

5625 SE Abshier Blvd., Belleview

Complaint Inspection on Feb. 15

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

5 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

• High Priority – Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. In reach in cooler, blue carton of raw brown shell eggs on top of pan of boiled peanuts. Moved during this inspection. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
• High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. Time of 12 pm not written on shell eggs. Added time. **Corrected On-Site**

What agency inspects restaurants in Florida?

Routine regulation and inspection of restaurants is conducted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The Department of Health is responsible for investigation and control of food-borne illness outbreaks associated with all food establishments.

How do I report a dirty restaurant in Florida?

If you see abuses of state standards, report them and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation will send inspectors. Call the Florida DBPR at 850-487-1395 or report a restaurant for health violations online.

Get the whole story at our restaurant inspection database.

What does all that terminology in Florida restaurant inspections mean?

Basic violations are those considered against best practices.

A warning is issued after an inspector documents violations that must be corrected by a certain date or within a specified number of days from receipt of the inspection report.

An administrative complaint is a form of legal action taken by the division. Insufficient compliance after a warning, a pattern of repeat violations or existence of serious conditions that warrant immediate action may result in the division initiating an administrative complaint against the establishment. Says the division website: “Correcting the violations is important, but penalties may still result from violations corrected after the warning time was over.”

An emergency order — when a restaurant is closed by the inspector — is based on an immediate threat to the public. Here, the Division of Hotels and Restaurants director has determined that the establishment must stop doing business and any division license is suspended to protect health, safety or welfare of the public.

A 24-hour call-back inspection will be performed after an emergency closure or suspension of license.