GREENACRES, FL. Back in February 2026, state inspectors ordered Caribbean Tease Restaurant LLC on Lake Worth Road shut down after documenting roach activity inside the Greenacres dining room, forcing the restaurant to vacate by March 2.
The closure order came on February 27. It was not the restaurant's first.
What Inspectors Found
Caribbean Tease: Inspection Activity Around the February 2026 Closure
The closure-triggering violation was roach activity, the category inspectors use when live roaches are present in a food service environment in numbers or locations serious enough to constitute an immediate public health hazard. The emergency order required the restaurant to stop serving customers and vacate the premises.
The day before the closure, on February 26, inspectors had already documented six high-severity violations and two intermediate violations at the restaurant. That inspection, combined with the roach finding the following day, produced a rapid sequence of enforcement action over a 72-hour stretch.
Inspectors returned on February 28 and found the high-severity violations resolved, though one intermediate violation remained. By the morning of March 2, the restaurant cleared its follow-up inspection with zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations and was permitted to reopen at 8:19 a.m.
What This Means
Roach activity is among the most serious findings an inspector can document in a licensed food service facility, and it is one of the few violation categories that routinely triggers an immediate emergency closure rather than a warning or a correction timeline.
The risk is direct. Cockroaches travel between sewage, garbage, and food preparation surfaces. They carry pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria on their bodies and in their waste, and they deposit those contaminants on any surface they cross, including cutting boards, prep counters, utensils, and food itself. A customer eating food prepared in a kitchen with active roach activity has no way to know that contact occurred.
Florida's emergency closure authority exists precisely for situations where the hazard is present and ongoing. A facility cannot address roach activity between inspections if inspectors are not present, which is why the state's protocol is to order immediate vacating rather than scheduling a correction period.
The February 26 inspection added context. Six high-severity violations in a single visit, the day before the closure order, suggested conditions that had deteriorated across multiple categories before the roach finding formalized the shutdown.
The Longer Record
The February 2026 closure was not an isolated incident in the restaurant's history. State records show 35 inspections on file for the facility and 152 total violations documented across that history. That volume, across a permanent food service location, reflects a sustained pattern of recurring findings rather than a single bad week.
This was also the facility's second emergency closure on record. A prior closure had already been ordered at some point before February 2026, meaning inspectors had previously found conditions serious enough to shut the restaurant down, the facility had resolved those conditions, and then found itself under another emergency order years later.
The inspection record surrounding the February closure compressed a significant amount of enforcement activity into a short window. The February 26 inspection, two February 27 inspection records, a February 28 follow-up, and the March 2 clearance inspection represent five separate inspector visits in five days.
A follow-up visit on May 4, 2026, turned up one high-severity violation and two intermediate violations, roughly two months after the facility had been cleared. The restaurant passed a subsequent inspection on May 5 with no violations cited. The May findings did not trigger another closure, but they indicated that the facility's compliance was not fully stable even after the February shutdown and the concentrated enforcement that followed it.
The Pattern
Across 35 inspections and 152 violations, Caribbean Tease Restaurant's record is one of a facility that has cycled through periods of compliance and periods of serious citation. Two emergency closures in that history, with the second one preceded by six high-severity violations the day before the roach finding, describes a facility that has struggled to maintain consistent standards over time.
The rapid clearance after the February closure, from shutdown on February 27 to reopening on March 2, is a common arc in Florida food service enforcement. Facilities often resolve the specific conditions that triggered a closure quickly once the pressure of an emergency order is applied. Whether those corrections hold is the more significant question, and the May 4 high-severity citation, two months later, is a data point the record does not resolve cleanly.
The restaurant's full inspection history, 35 visits deep, is available through state records. The violations documented in February 2026 are part of that record.