SATELLITE BEACH, FL. Back in March 2026, state inspectors ordered Bizzaro Pizza Company at 1024 Hwy A1A shut down after documenting rodent activity inside the Satellite Beach restaurant, a finding serious enough to require the facility be vacated by March 25.
The closure was not a surprise to anyone who had been watching the inspection record.
What Inspectors Found
Bizzaro Pizza Company: Recent Inspection History
Inspectors visited the restaurant twice on March 24. The first visit turned up four high-severity and four intermediate violations. The second, which triggered the closure order, found four high-severity and one intermediate violation. Rodent activity was the citation that ended the day with a shutdown notice on the door.
The restaurant was given until March 25 to vacate. It reopened that same morning at 8:42 a.m.
The follow-up inspection that cleared the restaurant for reopening still documented three high-severity violations. Among them: no employee health policy, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, and no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked menu items.
What These Violations Mean
Rodent activity in a food service facility is one of the conditions that triggers an emergency closure under Florida law because rodents are direct carriers of disease. Rat and mouse droppings, urine, and hair contaminate food contact surfaces and food itself. Unlike a temperature violation that can be corrected by adjusting a cooler, rodent activity signals an infestation that requires extermination and a full assessment of how far the animals have moved through the space.
The three high-severity violations that remained on the morning Bizzaro reopened each carry their own distinct risks. The absence of a written employee health policy means there is no formal mechanism for keeping sick workers out of the kitchen. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States, spreads readily when infected food handlers work through symptoms.
Undercooking is a separate and direct hazard. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. A pizza shop serving chicken or other proteins that do not reach minimum internal temperatures is sending food to customers that has not been rendered safe by heat.
The missing consumer advisory is a disclosure issue, but it is not a minor one. Customers with compromised immune systems, elderly diners, pregnant women, and young children face elevated risk from raw or undercooked proteins. Without a posted advisory, they have no way to make an informed choice about what they order.
The Longer Record
The March 2026 closure was not Bizzaro Pizza Company's first. State records show the facility has one prior emergency closure in addition to the March shutdown, meaning the rodent-triggered closure was the second time inspectors had found conditions serious enough to order the restaurant vacated.
Across 12 inspections on record, the facility has accumulated 102 total violations. That average, roughly eight and a half violations per inspection, reflects a facility that has struggled consistently, not one that hit a single bad stretch.
The January 22, 2026 inspection stands out in the recent history. Inspectors documented 11 high-severity and 6 intermediate violations on that visit, the single worst inspection in the data, coming just two months before the March closure. That visit did not result in a closure, but the volume of high-severity findings it produced was a direct precursor to what followed.
The pattern across 2025 tells the same story. Inspectors visited in July and found five high-severity violations. They returned twice in September and found high-severity violations on both visits. The February 2025 inspection was comparatively mild, one high-severity and two intermediate citations, but it did not represent a turning point. The facility's numbers climbed again through the rest of the year and into 2026.
Where Things Stood
Bizzaro Pizza Company was cleared to reopen on the morning of March 25, 2026, less than 24 hours after the closure order. But the three high-severity violations documented during that same reopening inspection, including the absent employee health policy and the undercooking citation, were unresolved findings in a facility with a second emergency closure now on its record.
Whether those violations were corrected in a subsequent visit, and what inspectors found if they returned, is not reflected in the data available here.