MIAMI, FL. State inspectors ordered Dunkin Donuts #15 on NW 62nd Street closed on July 9 after documenting rodent activity at the location, the same category of violation that triggered the restaurant's first emergency shutdown in its inspection history.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation issued the closure order and required the restaurant to vacate by July 10. The location was cleared to reopen at 9:15 that morning, after a follow-up inspection found zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations remaining.
What Inspectors Found
Dunkin Donuts #15: Inspection Severity Over Time
The July 9 inspection produced one high-severity violation and three intermediate violations. The high-severity finding was the rodent activity, which carries enough immediate risk to public health that inspectors did not wait for a follow-up to order the restaurant closed.
The July 10 follow-up inspection found nothing. No high-severity violations, no intermediate violations. The restaurant was back open before mid-morning.
What This Means
Rodent activity in a food service establishment is one of the narrower categories that triggers an automatic emergency closure under Florida law. The reason is direct: rodents contaminate food contact surfaces, equipment, and food itself through droppings, urine, and direct contact. Unlike a temperature violation, which affects specific food items that can be discarded, rodent contamination spreads across a kitchen in ways that are not always visible to inspectors or employees.
At a location like a Dunkin Donuts, where food and drink are prepared continuously throughout the day, the risk is not limited to a single item or station. Surfaces used to prepare donuts, brew coffee, and handle customer orders are all potentially exposed. A customer who ordered a coffee or a sandwich on the morning of July 9, before the closure was ordered, had no way of knowing inspectors would find a problem that afternoon.
The speed of the resolution, cleared in less than 24 hours, does not change what was present when the closure was ordered. It means the restaurant addressed the immediate finding quickly. It does not speak to how long the condition existed before the July 9 visit.
The Longer Record
This closure is not an isolated event in the history of this location. State records show 14 inspections and 77 total violations on file for Dunkin Donuts #15, and this is the second time the restaurant has been emergency-closed.
The prior closure is not a distant footnote. The inspection record shows this location has carried at least one high-severity violation in every inspection year on file except 2024, when inspectors found five intermediate violations but no high-severity citations. That single cleaner year sits between a three-high-severity inspection in October 2023 and a one-high-severity inspection in August 2025.
The worst stretch in the record came in late 2021 and 2022. The November 2021 inspection produced seven high-severity violations and three intermediate ones, the single most serious inspection in the location's file. A year later, in November 2022, inspectors returned and found four high-severity violations and two intermediate ones. The pattern across those two years points to recurring problems that were not resolved between visits.
The August 2025 inspection, one year before this closure, also found one high-severity violation and three intermediate violations, an identical severity profile to the July 9, 2026 inspection that triggered the shutdown. The two inspections are a year apart and show the same distribution of findings.
The Reopening
The restaurant passed its follow-up inspection on the morning of July 10 and was cleared to reopen at 9:15 a.m. The follow-up found no remaining violations at any severity level.
That result is consistent with how emergency closures typically resolve. An operator addresses the specific conditions that triggered the shutdown, an inspector confirms they are gone, and the restaurant reopens. What the follow-up inspection does not assess is whether the underlying conditions that allowed rodent activity to develop have been corrected in any lasting way.
The prior emergency closure at this location ended the same way, a clean follow-up, a reopening. The July 9, 2026 closure is evidence that the prior resolution did not hold indefinitely.
Dunkin Donuts #15 has now been emergency-closed twice in its 14-inspection history, both times for conditions serious enough that inspectors ordered the restaurant vacated rather than scheduling a standard follow-up. The record does not show a date for the next routine inspection.
