Florida inspectors temporarily shut 15 restaurants, food trucks and food businesses from Orlando and Ormond Beach to Tampa Bay during the week of Oct. 19 to 25, citing live roaches, rodent droppings, raw sewage and unsafe food storage, according to state records summarized by News 6 ClickOrlando.
Nine of the 15 met inspection standards and reopened within one to four days, according to that report. Six had no reopening listed as of the report’s Oct. 28 publication, including three closed for operating without a valid license rather than for sanitation problems.
Every closure in Florida’s system is temporary by design — it ends when an inspector confirms the problems are fixed. The state’s restaurant regulator says an emergency closure is not a disciplinary action and lasts until the problems are corrected, according to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
Restaurants That Reopened After Follow-Up Visits
In Orlando, Garranty Bon Bagay Restaurant at 2051 Americana Blvd. was closed Oct. 19 after inspectors found five rodent droppings in a mixing bowl and about 10 more near a mixer and refrigerator, along with sewage backing up in a mop sink. It reopened Oct. 21…