BUNNELL, FL. State inspectors ordered Delicias Centro Americanas 3 at 100A S State Street closed on August 27 after finding roach activity inside the Flagler County restaurant, triggering an emergency shutdown that, as of the most recent state records, has not been resolved.
It is the third time inspectors have ordered this location closed.
What Inspectors Found
Delicias Centro Americanas 3: Inspection Pattern, 2025–2026
The August 27 inspection produced two high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. The triggering violation that state records cite for the closure was roach activity, a finding that inspectors treat as an immediate public health threat requiring the facility to stop serving customers.
A follow-up inspection on September 9 showed zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations, and a second inspection the same day recorded only one intermediate violation, a citation for single-use items being improperly reused. Whether those results were sufficient to confirm a full reopening is not reflected in state records reviewed for this article.
The Third Closure
This was not the first time roaches or rodents forced this kitchen to shut down. State records show the location was previously emergency-closed on March 26, 2021, for rodent activity. That closure's reopen status was also not confirmed in state records.
The August 27 closure is the facility's second pest-related shutdown and its third emergency closure in total.
A restaurant that accumulates multiple emergency closures at the same address is not typical. Most permanent food service facilities in Florida go years, or their entire operational history, without a single emergency order. This location has now reached three.
The Longer Record
Across 35 inspections on record, Delicias Centro Americanas 3 has accumulated 181 total violations. That average, roughly five violations per inspection visit, reflects a facility that has drawn repeated scrutiny from state inspectors over its operational history.
The pattern within the past year alone is striking. In May 2025, inspectors cited four high-severity violations. In July 2025, six high-severity violations were documented, though a follow-up the next day showed zero. In December 2025, inspectors found seven high-severity violations, again resolved on a follow-up a week later. Then in August 2026, the roach activity finding resulted in the emergency closure.
That sequence, four serious inspections in roughly fifteen months, including three visits with six or more high-severity violations apiece, shows a facility that has consistently drawn significant findings, addressed them quickly enough to pass follow-up inspections, and then accumulated new violations before the next routine visit.
The 2021 rodent closure fits the same shape. That shutdown occurred, reopen status was left unconfirmed in the records, and the facility continued operating through the years that followed, accumulating violations along the way.
What These Violations Mean
Roach activity is among the violations most likely to trigger an immediate emergency closure in Florida, and for a specific reason: roaches are not a passive contamination risk. They travel between sewage, drains, garbage, and food preparation surfaces, depositing bacteria including Salmonella and E. coli wherever they move. A kitchen with active roach presence is a kitchen where pathogens can reach food, utensils, and prep surfaces without any further failure by staff.
That is why the state does not treat roach activity as a violation to be corrected at the next routine visit. An emergency closure removes customers from the risk immediately, while requiring the operator to eliminate the infestation before anyone is served again.
The intermediate violation documented on the September 9 follow-up, single-use items being improperly reused, points to a separate but related concern. Gloves, cups, and utensils designed for one use are manufactured without the durability needed to survive repeated cleaning. Reusing them creates cross-contamination pathways that proper equipment would not. It is a lower-tier violation, but its presence on a follow-up inspection at a facility just cleared from a pest-related closure adds to the picture of a kitchen under ongoing operational pressure.
The string of high-severity violations across 2025 and into 2026, fourteen combined high-severity citations across three inspections before the August closure, suggests conditions that were corrected on demand but not durably resolved between visits.
Where Things Stand
State records do not confirm that Delicias Centro Americanas 3 has formally reopened following the August 27 emergency closure. The September 9 follow-up inspections showed improvement, but a confirmed reopen status does not appear in the data reviewed for this article.
The restaurant has 181 violations across 35 inspections, three emergency closures on its record, and an unresolved closure as of the most recent available state records.
