MILTON, FL. Back in March 2026, state inspectors ordered Cisco's at 6565 SW Caroline St shut down after finding roach activity inside the restaurant, the fourth time in less than three years the same facility had been emergency-closed for the exact same reason.
The closure order was issued on March 10, 2026. The restaurant was given until March 13 to address the problem, and records show it passed a follow-up inspection that same day.
What Inspectors Found
Cisco's Emergency Closure History
The March 10 inspection that triggered the shutdown also produced five high-severity violations, the most recorded in any single visit in the recent inspection history available for this location.
Those five violations were not about pests. Inspectors cited the restaurant for having no person in charge present or performing duties, no employee health policy or an inadequate one, employees not reporting symptoms of illness, and improper hand and arm washing technique. One intermediate violation was also cited that day.
The roach activity itself was what triggered the emergency closure order. The other violations documented alongside it paint a picture of a kitchen operating without basic oversight structures in place at the moment inspectors walked in.
What These Violations Mean
Roach activity is among the narrowest grounds on which Florida inspectors will order an immediate shutdown, because cockroaches are direct carriers of pathogens. They move between sewage, garbage and food-contact surfaces in a single pass. A kitchen with active roach presence is a kitchen where that contamination chain is already operating.
The management violations documented alongside the roach finding compound the risk significantly. When no person in charge is present or actively performing supervisory duties, the CDC's own data indicates that such establishments accumulate critical violations at roughly three times the rate of properly supervised kitchens. The absence of oversight is not a paperwork problem. It is the condition under which other problems multiply undetected.
The employee health violations documented at Cisco's on March 10 represent a separate and serious risk. Without a written employee health policy, a restaurant has no mechanism to keep a sick worker out of the kitchen. Norovirus alone accounts for an estimated 20 million infections in the United States each year, and food workers who do not report illness symptoms are identified as the primary cause of multi-victim outbreaks. An employee washing hands improperly compounds this further, because pathogens remain on the hands even when a washing attempt has been made.
Taken together, the violations from the March 10 inspection describe a facility where the structural safeguards against foodborne illness were either absent or not functioning on the day inspectors arrived.
The Longer Record
The March 2026 closure was not an isolated event. State records show Cisco's has been emergency-closed for roach activity four times since September 2023, a span of roughly 18 months.
The first closure came on September 28, 2023. The restaurant reopened the next day. A second closure followed on December 12, 2023, with a one-day turnaround again. A third closure was ordered on August 21, 2024, and the restaurant was back open by August 22. The fourth closure, in March 2026, followed the same short timeline. The restaurant passed its follow-up inspection on March 13 and was cleared to reopen.
Across 36 total inspections on record, Cisco's has accumulated 151 violations. The inspection history shows an uneven pattern, with clean visits scattered between inspections that produced multiple high-severity findings. In May 2025, the restaurant passed an inspection with no high-severity violations. Four months earlier, in October 2025, inspectors found three high-severity violations. In May 2024, a second visit that month turned up three high-severity violations after a clean inspection two days prior.
The most recent inspection on record, from May 14, 2026, found four high-severity violations and zero intermediate violations, occurring more than two months after the March closure and reopening. The violations cited that day were not provided in detail in the available records, but four high-severity findings in a single visit is consistent with the pattern documented throughout this facility's inspection history.
The Pattern
Four emergency closures for the same violation category, roach activity, across 18 months is a documented pattern in state records, not an inference. Each closure was followed by a rapid reopening, typically within one to two days, after inspectors determined the immediate problem had been addressed.
What the records do not show is any sustained period in which high-severity violations stopped appearing at Cisco's. The clean inspections on record, including the May 2025 visit and the October 2024 visit, demonstrate the restaurant is capable of meeting state standards. The question the record raises is why those standards are not consistently maintained between inspections.
The May 2026 inspection, the most recent in the available data, found four high-severity violations at a restaurant that had been closed, cleaned, and cleared to reopen just two months earlier.