CORAL SPRINGS, FL. State inspectors ordered Foodeyez Caribbean Cuisine Corp at 6268 W Sample Rd shut down on July 30 after documenting roach activity inside the restaurant, the second emergency closure the Broward County Caribbean eatery has faced on record.
The closure order was issued the same day inspectors arrived. By 3:29 p.m., the restaurant had addressed the violations well enough to reopen.
What Inspectors Found
Foodeyez Caribbean Cuisine: Inspection Severity Over Time
The July 30 inspection that triggered the closure found 4 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate violations. Roach activity was the specific finding that crossed the threshold for an emergency shutdown order under state law.
The follow-up inspection conducted the same afternoon recorded zero high-severity violations and zero intermediate violations, clearing the way for the restaurant to resume service.
What This Means
Roach activity inside a food service facility is one of the conditions Florida law treats as an immediate public health threat, serious enough to order a restaurant vacated the same day without a warning or a grace period. The reason is direct: cockroaches travel between sewage, garbage, and food preparation surfaces, and they carry pathogens including salmonella and E. coli on their bodies and legs. Every surface a roach crosses in a kitchen is a potential contamination point.
Unlike a temperature violation that can be corrected by adjusting a cooler, or a hand-washing violation that can be addressed by retraining staff, roach activity signals an infestation that has developed over time. Roaches do not appear in a commercial kitchen overnight. Their presence indicates conditions, including food debris, moisture, and harborage spaces, that have been building long enough to support a population.
The same-day reopening is permitted under state rules once inspectors confirm the immediate threat has been addressed. But the conditions that allowed the infestation to take hold are not necessarily resolved in an afternoon.
The Longer Record
The July 30 closure was not the first time Foodeyez has been ordered shut. State records show the restaurant has at least one prior emergency closure on record, making this its second documented shutdown. Across 13 total inspections, the facility has accumulated 57 violations.
The pattern of high-severity violations at this location stretches back at least to December 2023, when a single inspection found 6 high-severity violations, the steepest single-visit count in the facility's recorded history. The September 2025 inspection found 4 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations. The March 2026 inspection found 3 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations.
Of the eight inspections with recorded violation counts, every one found at least one high-severity violation. The facility has not had a clean high-severity record in any routine inspection captured in the data.
The July 30 closure is the culmination of that documented pattern, not a departure from it. A restaurant that has logged high-severity violations across every inspected visit over nearly three years, and has now been emergency-closed twice, presents a record that goes beyond isolated incidents.
What the record does not show is whether the conditions that produced the roach activity on July 30 have been fully corrected, or whether the same pattern will surface at the next routine inspection.
