ORLANDO, FL. State inspectors ordered Castellos Pizza on Conroy Windermere Road shut down on August 4, 2026, after documenting live roach activity inside the restaurant, a finding serious enough to trigger an emergency closure order requiring the facility to vacate by August 6.
The roach activity citation was classified as a high-severity violation. A single intermediate violation was also recorded during the same inspection. It was not the first time inspectors had forced this restaurant to close its doors.
What Inspectors Found
Castellos Pizza: Recent Inspection History
The roach activity finding on August 4 was not a borderline call. Florida's Division of Hotels and Restaurants treats live pest activity as an immediate public health threat, one that warrants shutting a restaurant rather than scheduling a correction for a later date.
Inspectors returned on August 5 and found no high-severity violations, though one intermediate violation remained. A second follow-up on August 6 cleared both categories entirely. The restaurant was permitted to reopen that afternoon at 2:18 p.m.
What This Means
Live roach activity in a food service environment is not a housekeeping problem. Cockroaches carry and spread bacteria including Salmonella and E. coli, picking up pathogens from drains, garbage, and contaminated surfaces and transferring them directly to food preparation areas, utensils, and food itself. A customer eating at Castellos Pizza on August 4 had no way of knowing the kitchen had an active roach presence.
Florida law treats pest activity as a high-priority violation because the contamination risk is immediate and ongoing. Unlike a temperature reading that can be corrected by moving food to a colder unit, an active roach infestation requires extermination, deep cleaning, and inspection confirmation before the public can safely eat there again. That is precisely the sequence that played out here across three consecutive inspection days.
The intermediate violation recorded on August 4 and still present on August 5 adds a secondary layer of concern. Intermediate violations typically involve food handling procedures, employee hygiene practices, or equipment sanitation, issues that compound the risk when pest activity is already present.
The Longer Record
The August 4 closure was not the first time the state forced Castellos Pizza to shut down. The facility has one prior emergency closure on record, making this its second. Across 24 total inspections on file, the restaurant has accumulated 114 violations.
That volume is significant context. One hundred fourteen violations across 24 inspections averages nearly five violations per visit. The recent inspection record shows high-severity citations appearing with regularity: two high-severity violations in August 2025, two more in September 2024, one each in May 2024 and September 2023.
The October 2025 inspection produced a clean result, zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations. Ten months later, inspectors were back with an emergency closure order.
That gap between a clean inspection and a closure is not unusual in Florida's inspection system, which relies on periodic visits rather than continuous monitoring. What the record at Castellos Pizza shows is a facility that has cycled through serious violations, corrections, and clean inspections repeatedly over its documented history, and has now reached a second emergency shutdown.
The facility is licensed for permanent food service and was cleared to reopen on August 6. Whether the conditions that produced two emergency closures over the life of this restaurant have been durably corrected is not something a single clearance inspection can confirm.
What Comes Next
State records show the restaurant met inspection standards by the afternoon of August 6, two days after the closure was ordered. The roach activity that triggered the shutdown was no longer documented as present.
Castellos Pizza has been here before. A facility with two emergency closures, 114 cumulative violations, and recurring high-severity citations across multiple consecutive years has a record that speaks for itself. The August 6 clearance reopened the doors. What the next routine inspection finds is the open question.
