Kitchen vaping. Roaches. Rodents. Live chicken. South Florida restaurant issues

Larger-than-usual numbers of rodents, roaches and flies and inept restaurant management caused 15 South Florida restaurants to fail inspection recently.

This latest edition of the Sick and Shut Down List is most inclusive: chains, independents, a restaurant in a hotel, one in a mall, and eateries in the Keys, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

Newcomers, take note of this reminder for regulars: This list is totally reactive. We don’t do the inspecting. That’s done by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. We don’t choose who gets inspected. That’s done by the DBPR’s system for routine inspections and by customer complaints, which can be filed through the DBPR’s website…

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