FERNANDINA BEACH, FL. State inspectors ordered Domino's 5112 at 1124 S 14th Street shut down on September 9, 2026, after documenting active rodent, roach and fly activity inside the working pizza kitchen.
The closure order required the facility to vacate by September 10. State records show the location reopened at 10:01 a.m., though the full inspection report detailing violation counts and exact locations of pest activity has not been released publicly.
What Inspectors Found
CLOSURE TRIGGERS
CLOSURE TIMELINE
The closure was triggered by three simultaneous categories of pest activity. Inspectors documented rodents, roaches and flies all present in the same facility on the same visit, a combination that meets the threshold for an emergency shutdown under Florida food safety law.
That is not a single pest problem that slipped through. It is three distinct infestations documented in one inspection.
The location is licensed for food service. It was operating as a functioning Domino's pizza kitchen when inspectors arrived.
What This Means
Rodent activity in a food preparation environment carries a direct contamination risk. Rodents travel across food contact surfaces, preparation tables and storage areas, leaving behind droppings, urine and hair. Unlike a temperature violation that affects a specific batch of food, rodent contamination can be spread invisibly across an entire kitchen before a single customer reports an illness.
Roach activity compounds that risk. Cockroaches carry pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria on their bodies, and they move between drains, garbage and food surfaces without any visible trail. A kitchen with active roach activity has surfaces that cannot be considered clean regardless of how recently they were wiped down.
Fly activity in a pizza kitchen, where dough, sauce and toppings sit exposed during prep, creates a direct route for contamination. Flies land on food, regurgitate digestive enzymes and move on. Two of those three pest types alone would be enough to close most facilities. All three present simultaneously is what Florida inspectors classify as an immediate public health threat.
The combination is also significant for traceability. If a customer became ill after eating food prepared in this kitchen on September 9, there would be no way to isolate which pest type or which surface was responsible. That is precisely why the state does not issue a warning or a correction order in cases like this. It issues a closure.
The Longer Record
State records show zero prior inspections on file for this Domino's location. There are no documented violations before September 9, and no prior emergency closures in the database.
That absence of history is worth noting carefully. It does not mean the restaurant had a clean record. It means there is no record at all, which is a different thing. A facility with 40 prior inspections and recurring pest citations tells one story. A facility with no prior inspections that closes for rodent, roach and fly activity on its first documented visit tells another.
Without prior inspection data, there is no way to determine whether this was a sudden infestation or a long-standing condition that had simply never been inspected. There is no baseline. There is no trend line. There is only what inspectors found on September 9.
What they found was enough to shut the restaurant down immediately.
The Reopening
The facility reopened at 10:01 a.m. following the closure, indicating that a follow-up inspection was conducted and the location was deemed to have met state standards at that point. Florida's emergency closure process requires a facility to address all conditions that triggered the shutdown before inspectors will authorize reopening.
Pest remediation in that timeframe typically involves a licensed exterminator, a full cleaning of affected areas and removal of any food or materials that inspectors flagged as contaminated. Whether the follow-up inspection identified any remaining violations, and how many, has not been released in the available records.
The Domino's at 1124 S 14th Street was open and serving customers the day it was inspected. It was closed by order of the state the same day. It reopened the following morning. What the kitchen looked like in the hours between those two facts is what the full inspection report, when released, will show.
