FLORIDA. Inspectors visiting the Outback Steakhouse at 6845 S Semoran Blvd in Orlando documented eight high-severity violations in a single inspection, including food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and no demonstrated allergen awareness among staff. That tally makes it the worst-performing Outback Steakhouse location in Florida during the 90-day window between April 15 and July 13, 2026.
Across Florida's 100 Outback Steakhouse locations, state records show 2,166 inspections on file, an average of 4.75 violations per inspection, and a chain-wide pass rate of 87 percent. No Florida Outback has been emergency-closed this year. But ten locations accumulated serious high-severity citations in the most recent inspection period, and several of those violations appear at multiple sites, suggesting problems that go beyond individual kitchens.
The Worst Locations
The Orlando location's eight high-severity violations covered nearly every category of serious food safety failure. Inspectors cited the restaurant for having no written employee health policy, for serving food from unapproved or unknown sources, for inadequate shellfish traceability records, for improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, for lacking a consumer advisory on raw or undercooked menu items, for toxic chemicals stored improperly, for toxic substances improperly identified or used, and for no allergen awareness demonstrated by staff.
The Outback Steakhouse at 10933 N Military Trail in Palm Beach Gardens came in second with six high-severity and four intermediate violations. Inspectors found the person in charge either absent or not performing required duties, no employee health policy, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper hand-washing technique, missing shellfish traceability records, and no consumer advisory. Two intermediate violations involved improper sewage or wastewater disposal and multi-use utensils that had not been properly cleaned.
The Outback Steakhouse #1022 at 3215 S West College Rd in Ocala also drew six high-severity citations. Inspectors there documented an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper hand-washing technique, food from an unapproved or unknown source, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, no consumer advisory, and toxic chemicals stored or labeled incorrectly.
The Outback Steakhouse at 8845 Founders Square Dr in Naples produced five high-severity violations, including one that the other top locations did not share: food not cooked to the required minimum temperature. Inspectors also cited improper hand-washing technique, inadequate shellfish records, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, and no consumer advisory. Two intermediate violations covered inadequate ventilation and improperly maintained toilet facilities.
The Outback Steakhouse at 10860 SR 54 in New Port Richey drew three high-severity violations: an employee not reporting illness symptoms, inadequate shellfish traceability records, and no consumer advisory.
The Pattern Across the Chain
One violation appears more often than any other across these ten locations: the missing consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. Seven of the ten locations were cited for it. Outback Steakhouse menus include steaks served at various degrees of doneness, and state rules require a written notice informing customers of the risks associated with consuming raw or undercooked animal products.
Shellfish traceability failures showed up at four locations, in Orlando, Palm Beach Gardens, Naples, and New Port Richey. Improperly cleaned food contact surfaces appeared at three locations, in Orlando, Ocala, and Naples. Employee illness reporting failures were documented at Ocala, Palm Beach Gardens, and New Port Richey.
The Outback Steakhouse at 12245 SR 70 E in Bradenton drew a citation for failing to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish, alongside an intermediate violation for improperly cleaned multi-use utensils. The Outback Steakhouse #1034 at 245 SR 312 in Saint Augustine was cited for toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled. The Outback Steakhouse at 180 Hickman Dr in Sanford received one high-severity citation for improperly cleaned food contact surfaces. The Outback Steakhouse #1036 at 861 W 23 St in Panama City and the Outback Steakhouse at 1625 E Hwy 50 in Clermont each drew a single high-severity citation for the missing consumer advisory.
What These Violations Mean
The consumer advisory violation, cited at seven Florida Outback locations, is not a paperwork technicality. Outback's menu includes steaks cooked to customer preference, which means some orders leave the kitchen at temperatures below what kills Salmonella and E. coli. Without a posted advisory, customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or feeding young children have no way to make an informed choice about that risk. State rules exist precisely because those populations face disproportionate danger from undercooked animal proteins.
The shellfish traceability failures at Orlando, Palm Beach Gardens, Naples, and New Port Richey carry a different kind of risk. Shellfish, including oysters, clams, and mussels, are consumed raw or lightly cooked, and they filter large volumes of water, concentrating whatever pathogens or toxins that water contains. When a restaurant cannot produce shellfish identification tags, health investigators have no way to trace an illness back to a harvest location or lot. If someone gets sick, the trail goes cold.
The food-from-unapproved-sources citations at Orlando and Ocala mean that some ingredients arrived without passing through USDA or FDA-inspected supply chains. Approved sourcing is the first checkpoint in the food safety system. Food that bypasses it could carry Listeria, Salmonella, or other pathogens without any of the testing that regulated suppliers are required to conduct.
The allergen awareness failure at Orlando is the most acute in terms of individual risk. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans, and an allergic reaction can be fatal. When inspectors cite a location for no demonstrated allergen awareness, it means staff could not show they understood how to prevent cross-contact or communicate ingredient information to customers with life-threatening sensitivities.
The Longer Record
The 2,166 inspections on file across Florida's 100 Outback Steakhouse locations represent a substantial body of evidence. That averages to roughly 21 inspections per location statewide, though the distribution varies. The chain's 87 percent pass rate means that across all those inspections, 13 percent resulted in findings serious enough to require corrective action.
The Orlando location on S Semoran Blvd accumulated eight high-severity violations in a single inspection period, a count that stands out even within a chain that averages nearly five violations per visit. That volume in one inspection suggests broad, systemic failures rather than isolated lapses: no health policy, no allergen training, unapproved food sources, and improperly stored chemicals are failures in fundamentally different operational areas.
Palm Beach Gardens produced the most intermediate violations of any location in this period, four, alongside its six high-severity citations. The combination of a missing person in charge, an employee not reporting illness, and improper sewage disposal in the same inspection is notable. Those three violations together describe a facility where oversight had broken down at multiple levels simultaneously.
The Naples location's citation for food not cooked to minimum temperature is the only violation in this dataset that describes a hazard at the point of service, meaning food that inspectors had reason to believe left the kitchen in a condition that preserved pathogens. Every other location's high-severity violations describe conditions that create risk. Naples had a condition that, by the time inspectors documented it, had already produced a plate.
