FLORIDA. A Miami bagel shop accumulated four high-severity violations and five intermediate citations across five inspections in five days, placing it at the top of a statewide list of repeat-cited restaurants that state inspectors returned to again and again between August 6 and September 5, 2026.
The Worst of the Twelve
Bagel Express on SW 88th Street in Miami drew its first inspection in this period on August 31 and its fifth on September 4. Across those five visits, inspectors documented that the facility had no employee health policy, food contact surfaces that were not properly cleaned or sanitized, a consumer advisory missing for raw or undercooked foods, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled near food. Five intermediate violations accompanied those four high-severity citations, including improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, improper sanitizing solution or procedures, and single-use items being reused.
That is nine distinct violation categories documented at a single facility in a five-day span.
Thinh An Kitchen and Tofu on West Waters Avenue in Tampa drew three high-severity violations across five inspections between August 21 and August 25. Inspectors cited the facility for an employee not reporting symptoms of illness, improper hand and arm washing technique, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. None of those three violations is a paperwork issue or a cracked floor tile.
AC Sports Bar on North Alafaya Trail in Orlando drew one high-severity and four intermediate violations across five inspections between August 7 and August 26. The high-severity citation was for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized. The intermediate violations included improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, single-use items improperly reused, and inadequate ventilation and lighting.
Shady Oak Restaurant and Tavern on West Old New York Avenue in DeLand drew one high-severity violation, also for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, alongside an intermediate citation for inadequate ventilation, across five inspections between August 18 and August 27.
Molly Malone's Irish Pub on East Davis Boulevard in Tampa was inspected 13 times in this 90-day window, more than any other facility on this list. Its most recent high-severity citation was for no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. An intermediate violation for inadequate ventilation and lighting was also documented.
Thirteen inspections in 90 days is not routine oversight. That volume typically reflects a facility that has required repeated follow-up visits to verify correction of prior findings.
What These Violations Mean
The most acute danger in this dataset sits at Thinh An Kitchen and Tofu. An employee not reporting illness symptoms is what state and federal public health officials call an outbreak enabler. Norovirus, which causes roughly 20 million illnesses in the United States each year, spreads directly from infected food workers to customers through food handling. A facility where employees are not required or trained to report symptoms has no mechanism to interrupt that chain. The accompanying citation for improper handwashing technique compounds the risk: even when a worker attempts to wash their hands, the technique documented at Thinh An left pathogens on hands that then contacted food.
At Bagel Express, the combination of no employee health policy and improperly stored toxic chemicals near food represents two separate pathways to customer harm. The health policy gap mirrors the Thinh An problem, creating a facility where sick workers have no formal obligation to stay away from food. The chemical storage violation is a different category of risk entirely: mislabeled or improperly stored cleaning compounds and pesticides near food can cause acute poisoning without any visible sign of contamination.
The sewage or wastewater disposal violations at both Bagel Express and AC Sports Bar carry a specific risk that is easy to underestimate. Improper sewage disposal creates the conditions for fecal contamination throughout a facility, not just at a single point. Both facilities also drew citations for multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, a violation that compounds the sewage risk because bacterial biofilms, once established on improperly cleaned surfaces, protect pathogens from standard sanitizing efforts.
The food contact surface violations at AC Sports Bar and Shady Oak Restaurant and Tavern represent the most common high-severity citation in this dataset. Cutting boards, prep tables, and slicers that are not properly cleaned and sanitized between uses are a primary transfer vehicle for bacteria including Salmonella and Listeria. A single contaminated surface can expose every item prepared on it.
The Longer Record
The inspection counts in this dataset are the story. Molly Malone's Irish Pub was visited 13 times in 90 days. Romano's Pizzeria and Restaurant on US 1 South in Saint Augustine drew 9 inspections between August 18 and September 2. Siri's Gourmet Burgers and Pizza on Beach Boulevard in Gulf Port drew 7 visits in four days, between August 25 and August 29. These are not facilities receiving routine annual checks.
Romano's Pizzeria and Restaurant and Siri's Gourmet Burgers and Pizza both finished this period with zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations on record, as did Cooper on PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens and Rotis Indian Restaurant on US Highway 301 South in Riverview. The repeated inspections at those facilities may reflect prior-period findings that triggered follow-up visits, with corrections confirmed by the end of this window.
The facilities that ended the period still carrying high-severity violations are a different matter. Thinh An Kitchen and Tofu drew three high-severity citations across five inspections and closed the period with all three still documented in the record. Bagel Express drew four high-severity violations across five inspections in five days. AC Sports Bar was visited five times over 19 days and still carried one high-severity and four intermediate violations at its last inspection on August 26.
Subway on CR 579 in Seffner drew six inspections between August 17 and August 25 and finished with one intermediate violation, for single-use items improperly reused, still on record. Pelican Pub on US Highway 1 in Sebastian drew five inspections between August 10 and September 4 and closed the period with no violations on record. Winghouse Bar and Grill on South Kirkman Road in Orlando also drew five inspections and finished clean.
The pattern that distinguishes Bagel Express and Thinh An Kitchen and Tofu from the others on this list is not simply the number of visits. It is the severity of what was still being documented at the end of those visits. Five inspections in five days at a facility that still shows toxic chemicals near food and no employee health policy at the last recorded visit is a fact the record does not resolve.
