FLORIDA. Inspectors who walked into the Chipotle Mexican Grill at 10149 West Colonial Drive in Ocoee this summer left with eight high-severity violations on record, the worst single-location tally among all 296 Chipotle restaurants in Florida during a 90-day stretch ending September 21, 2026.
The Ocoee location's violations included food sourced from an unapproved or unknown supplier, parasite destruction procedures not followed, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, toxic chemicals stored improperly, inadequate handwashing by employees, no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods, and time used as a public health control without proper procedures in place. That is eight separate high-severity findings from a single visit.
The Worst of the Ninety Days
The next worst location by high-severity count was Chipotle 3497 at 1620 S Federal Highway in Boynton Beach, with five high-severity violations. Inspectors there found no person in charge present or performing duties, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, and no allergen awareness demonstrated by staff.
The Chipotle at 11680 University Boulevard in Orlando also drew five high-severity violations plus two intermediate ones. That location's record included no person in charge, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, misuse of time as a public health control, no consumer advisory, improper sewage or wastewater disposal, and inadequate ventilation.
The Chipotle at 1495 East Highway 50 in Clermont accumulated four high-severity and four intermediate violations. The high-severity findings there included improper handwashing technique, no consumer advisory, toxic chemicals stored or labeled improperly, and no allergen awareness. The intermediate violations included improper sewage disposal, single-use items being reused, inadequate ventilation, and equipment in poor repair.
Chipotle #4131 at 12581 Miramar Parkway in Miramar drew four high-severity violations: no person in charge, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, time as a public health control used without proper procedures, and no consumer advisory. The Chipotle at 33121 US Highway 19 North in Palm Harbor also collected four high-severity findings, including parasite destruction failures, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, food not cooked to minimum temperature, and improperly stored or identified toxic substances.
Two Boynton Beach locations appeared on the list independently. Chipotle #802 at 1780 North Congress Avenue drew two high-severity violations: an employee not reporting illness symptoms and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. That location also had an intermediate violation for improper sewage disposal.
Chipotle 1912 at 1515 SE 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale and Chipotle #647 at 2211 South Orange Avenue in Orlando each drew a single high-severity violation, both for missing consumer advisories on raw or undercooked foods. Chipotle 2946 at 5354 Fruitville Road in Sarasota had the same finding.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources citation at the Ocoee location is among the most serious findings in this data set. When a restaurant sources food outside USDA- or FDA-inspected channels, there is no traceability if a customer gets sick. An uninspected supplier has no accountability to the federal safety system, and if a contamination event occurs, investigators have no paper trail to follow.
Parasite destruction failures, found at both the Ocoee and Palm Harbor locations, are a distinct category of risk. Certain proteins, including fish and pork, require specific freezing temperatures or cooking times to kill parasites such as Anisakis or Trichinella. When those protocols are skipped, parasites can survive into the finished dish.
The employee illness reporting failures found at Boynton Beach on South Federal Highway, at University Boulevard in Orlando, at North Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach, and at Miramar represent a direct transmission route. A food worker who is symptomatic with norovirus and continues handling food can expose dozens or hundreds of customers in a single shift. This is the mechanism behind the majority of large-scale restaurant outbreak events.
The consumer advisory violation, the single most common high-severity finding across these locations, is narrower in scope but still consequential. Customers who are pregnant, elderly, or immunocompromised need that disclosure to make informed decisions. Six of the ten locations on this list failed to post it.
The Longer Record
Florida's Chipotle network has 5,680 inspections on record across 296 locations, an average of more than 19 inspections per location statewide. That volume of inspection history means the state has an unusually detailed baseline for this chain, and the locations flagged this summer can be placed against that record.
The chain's statewide pass rate of 94.59 percent and average of 2.51 violations per inspection make the Ocoee location's 10-violation haul, including 8 high-severity findings, a significant departure from the chain's own norm. Most Chipotle inspections in Florida close with two or three violations, none of them high-severity. An inspection that produces eight high-severity findings at a single location is not a documentation anomaly.
The Clermont location's eight total violations, split evenly between high-severity and intermediate, are notable for a different reason. Four intermediate violations in a single inspection, covering sewage disposal, reused single-use items, ventilation, and equipment condition, suggest maintenance and operational failures that compound each other. A restaurant with broken equipment and sewage concerns is also a restaurant where cleaning protocols are harder to execute consistently.
Three locations, Boynton Beach on South Federal Highway, University Boulevard in Orlando, and Miramar, each drew violations for no person in charge alongside employee illness reporting failures. That pairing matters. When supervisory oversight is absent, the systems that are supposed to catch a sick employee before they handle food are also absent. CDC data cited in the inspection records shows establishments without active managerial control have three times more critical violations. The Boynton Beach, Orlando, and Miramar inspections found exactly that scenario playing out.
The Statewide Picture
Across 296 Florida locations, Chipotle recorded zero emergency closures through the period ending September 21, 2026. The chain's pass rate of 94.59 percent places it in a range that regulators would consider acceptable for a large fast-casual operation.
But a pass rate measures whether a location met the minimum threshold on a given day. It does not measure the severity of what inspectors found inside. The Ocoee location on West Colonial Drive passed or failed on that same scale, yet its inspection record from this period contains food sourced from an unknown supplier, a parasite control failure, undercooking, unsanitized food contact surfaces, toxic chemicals near food, and an employee handwashing breakdown, all in one visit, with no consumer advisory on the wall.
No emergency closure was ordered.
