FLORIDA. The Chick-fil-A at 326 SE 1st Ave in Florida City drew the most serious inspection findings of any Chick-fil-A location in Florida between July and October 2026, with seven high-severity violations and two intermediate ones documented in a single visit.
Among those violations: no employee health policy, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, food in poor condition or mislabeled, inadequate shell stock identification records, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and a person in charge not present or not performing duties. Inspectors also documented improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
That is a facility where, on the same day, the person responsible for food safety oversight was either absent or not doing the job, workers were not required to report when they were sick, and the handwashing that did occur was done incorrectly.
The Violations Across Florida
The Chick-fil-A at 14020 Lunar Dr in Jacksonville recorded five high-severity violations, including food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, no allergen awareness demonstrated, inadequate shell stock identification records, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
The Kissimmee location at 6050 W Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway also drew five high-severity citations. Inspectors found food from an unapproved or unknown source, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, food not cooked to the required minimum temperature, inadequate shell stock identification records, and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. That location had no intermediate violations, but the five high-severity findings included both a cooking temperature failure and an unverified food source.
The Chick-fil-A at 3166 Daniels Rd in Winter Garden was cited for an employee not reporting illness symptoms, parasite destruction procedures not followed, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, along with improper sewage disposal and inadequate ventilation and lighting.
The location at 9500 McKenna Dr in Orlando drew four high-severity violations including food from an unapproved or unknown source, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and no allergen awareness demonstrated. Inspectors also noted improper sewage disposal and inadequate cooling or cold-holding equipment.
The Chick-fil-A at 4590 W State Road 46 in Sanford drew the most total violations of any location outside Florida City, with four high-severity and three intermediate citations. Two of those high-severity violations involved toxic substances, one for improper storage or labeling of chemicals and a separate citation for toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used.
The Fleming Island location at 1541 County Road 220 was cited for improper handwashing technique, no consumer advisory, toxic chemicals improperly stored, no allergen awareness demonstrated, and improper sewage disposal.
The Chick-fil-A on Sand Lake Road in Orlando drew violations for inadequate shell stock identification records, parasite destruction procedures not followed, no consumer advisory, and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used.
The Chick-fil-A Mandarin location at 3280 Oak Bluff Lane in Jacksonville was cited for a person in charge not present or not performing duties, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, and no consumer advisory. Inspectors also noted multi-use utensils not properly cleaned.
The Chick-fil-A of Ocoee at 10620 W Colonial Drive recorded three high-severity violations: an employee not reporting illness symptoms, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled.
What These Violations Mean
The most frequently cited violation across these ten locations was the absence of a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, appearing at seven of the ten facilities. That citation means customers who are elderly, pregnant, or immunocompromised were eating at those locations without any posted notice that certain menu items carry elevated risk. The advisory requirement exists precisely because those customers face the most severe consequences from undercooking.
The employee illness reporting failures documented at Florida City, Winter Garden, Jacksonville Mandarin, and Ocoee are a direct outbreak risk. Norovirus, the leading cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurant settings, spreads person-to-person and through food handled by infected workers. A facility without a written health policy, as documented at Florida City, has no mechanism to keep a sick employee from preparing food in the first place.
Toxic chemical violations appeared at six locations, including Winter Garden, Jacksonville on Lunar Drive, Fleming Island, Sanford, Sand Lake Road in Orlando, and Ocoee. Improperly stored or unlabeled chemicals near food preparation areas create a contamination pathway that can cause acute poisoning, not a delayed foodborne illness but an immediate one. At Sanford, inspectors cited the location twice on this category under two separate violation codes.
The food-from-unapproved-source citations at the Kissimmee and McKenna Drive Orlando locations carry a specific consequence that most violations do not: if a customer becomes ill, there may be no supply chain record to trace. USDA and FDA inspections exist to create that paper trail. Food entering a restaurant outside that system removes the traceability that investigators need to identify the source of an outbreak.
The Longer Record
Statewide, Chick-fil-A's 216 Florida locations have accumulated 4,071 inspections on record, averaging 3.43 violations per inspection and carrying a 95.83 percent pass rate. The chain has recorded zero emergency closures in Florida this year. That broad picture is favorable by industry standards.
The ten locations flagged in this 90-day period sit outside that average. The Florida City location's seven high-severity violations in a single inspection, including simultaneous failures in management oversight, employee illness policy, and handwashing technique, represents a concentration of foundational food safety breakdowns that the statewide average does not reflect.
The two Jacksonville locations tell a different part of the story. The Lunar Drive location and the Mandarin location were each cited for four or more high-severity violations in the same 90-day window, and both drew violations involving either management absence or employee illness reporting. Two locations in the same metro area recording management-level failures in the same quarter is a pattern worth noting.
The Kissimmee location's combination of an unverified food source and a cooking temperature failure, documented in the same inspection, is the most operationally acute pairing in this dataset. Undercooked food from a supplier whose safety inspections cannot be verified compounds the risk of each violation individually.
None of the ten locations in this report were emergency-closed. That fact sits alongside the Kissimmee record: food not cooked to the required minimum temperature, from a source that bypassed standard inspection, at a location that remains open.
