FLORIDA. A Jacksonville hotel, two sushi and seafood restaurants, a Dunkin Donuts, and a McDonald's were among 23 Florida food establishments emergency-closed for pest activity during a two-week stretch ending July 15, 2026, state records show. Fourteen closures involved roaches, six involved rodents, and three involved flies or other pests. Every facility on the list reopened the same day it was shuttered.
The Worst of the Week
The single most alarming closure of the period happened at a hotel. The Ramada by Wyndham Jax Hotel and Conference Center at 3130 Hartley Rd in Jacksonville was shut down on July 7 after inspectors documented rodent, roach, and fly activity simultaneously. The facility was not cleared to reopen until 3:24 p.m. that afternoon.
A hotel kitchen serving a conference center is among the higher-volume food service environments inspectors encounter. The combination of all three pest categories in a single inspection is relatively uncommon and indicates a facility where multiple points of infestation were active at the same time.
Jacksonville produced a second emergency closure the following day. CJ Crab House and Seafood at 5892 Norwood Ave was also shut for rodent, roach, and fly activity on July 8, reopening at 2:21 p.m. No URL was available for this location in state records.
The Rodent Closures
Dunkin Donuts #15 at 1190 NW 62 St in Miami was shut on July 9 for rodent activity and cleared to reopen by 9:15 a.m., the fastest turnaround of any closure in the dataset. What that timeline means practically: the facility was inspected, closed, remediated, and passed a follow-up inspection all before most of its customers would have ordered a second cup of coffee.
McDonald's at 907 US Hwy 17 in Wauchula was closed July 8 for rodent activity and did not reopen until 2:29 p.m. The Wauchula location sits on a rural highway corridor in Hardee County, far from the urban markets that typically generate Florida's headline closures.
Victory Restaurant and Lounge at 3252 NE 1 Ave in Miami was closed July 7 for rodent activity, reopening at 12:17 p.m. Ocala produced two simultaneous closures: Pei Wei Express and Pizza Per-Bellini, both located at 3100 SW College Rd in what appears to be a shared commercial complex, were each shut July 7 for rodent activity and each cleared at the identical time, 10:36 a.m. No state URLs were available for either Ocala location.
Macker Seafood at 141 Bay St in Daytona Beach was closed July 9 for rodent activity, reopening at 10:18 a.m. The Bay Street address places it in the tourist corridor near the Daytona Beach waterfront, where foot traffic is at its summer peak.
The Roach Closures
Four facilities hit in this period were shut for roaches alone, with no rodent or fly activity noted. Carmine's La Trattoria at 2401 PGA Blvd in Palm Beach Gardens was closed July 8 and reopened by 9:45 a.m. PGA Boulevard is one of Palm Beach County's most upscale commercial corridors.
Chan's Chinese Food at 9200 NW 39 Ave in Gainesville was closed July 8 and cleared by 9:13 a.m., also among the fastest resolutions in the dataset.
Bud's Chicken and Seafood at 2579 Northlake Blvd in North Palm Beach was the last facility closed on July 8 to reopen, not cleared until 5:34 p.m. That is more than eight hours after the inspection.
Atlantic Sushi at 14812 S Military Trl in Delray Beach was shut July 8 and reopened at 12:19 p.m. Delray Beach was the only city to produce two closures in this period: Atlantic Sushi on July 8 and Excell Restaurant at 1044 S Congress Ave in Delray Beach on July 9, the latter cleared by 10:24 a.m.
Minano Ramen at 11909 Sheldon Rd in Tampa was shut July 7 for roach activity and reopened at 2:55 p.m.
Rustic Dough Works at 160 Cypress Point Unit D101 in Palm Coast was closed July 9 and cleared by 8:32 a.m., the earliest reopening time in the entire dataset.
China Lee at 2338 S Kirkman Rd in Orlando was shut July 7 for both roach and rodent activity, reopening at 2:34 p.m. Grazie at 3101 Corrine Dr in Orlando was closed July 9 with all three pest categories documented, rodent, roach, and fly, and did not reopen until 12:30 p.m.
Two Drunken Goats at 2509 Ocean Ave in Riviera Beach was shut July 8 for rodent, roach, and fly activity and cleared by 8:59 a.m., a remarkably fast resolution for a triple-category closure.
The Fly Closures
Golden Corral at 10100 Fox Trail Rd S in Royal Palm Beach was closed July 8 for fly activity and reopened by 9:04 a.m., one of only three facilities in this dataset shut exclusively for flies.
Jimmy John's #1127 at 1410 66 St N in St. Petersburg was closed July 9 for fly activity and did not reopen until 1:34 p.m. H and H Bagels at 11311 S Dixie Hwy in Pinecrest was also shut July 7 for fly activity, clearing at 3:42 p.m.
Omelet Shop/Drifters at 4703 SW 16 Pl in Cape Coral was shut July 9 for both roach and fly activity, reopening at 12:26 p.m.
What These Violations Mean
A triple-category pest closure, meaning inspectors document rodents, roaches, and flies in the same visit, is not a situation that develops overnight. Live roaches signal an established breeding population, not a single stray insect. When inspectors find roaches during a daytime inspection, it typically indicates a population large enough that individuals are active outside of their nocturnal cycle, which entomologists treat as a marker of severe infestation.
Rodent activity tells a different story. Inspectors look for droppings, gnaw marks, grease trails along baseboards, and nesting material. The presence of any of these in a food preparation or storage area means rodents have had access to surfaces where food is made, stored, or plated. Unlike roaches, which can spread bacteria across surfaces they walk on, rodents also contaminate food directly through urine and droppings, which can carry pathogens including Salmonella and Leptospira.
Fly closures are the least immediately alarming of the three categories in isolation, but flies in food preparation areas are a direct transfer mechanism. A fly that lands on raw protein and then on a cutting board or finished dish can move bacteria between surfaces in seconds. The Golden Corral closure in Royal Palm Beach and the Jimmy John's closure in St. Petersburg both involved fly activity in food service environments where this transfer risk is immediate.
The facilities that drew triple-category closures, the Ramada by Wyndham in Jacksonville, CJ Crab House in Jacksonville, Two Drunken Goats in Riviera Beach, and Grazie in Orlando, represent the highest-risk scenarios in this dataset. Each of those environments had all three contamination vectors active simultaneously.
The Longer Record
The two Ocala closures on July 7 are among the more structurally unusual in this dataset. Pei Wei Express and Pizza Per-Bellini share the same address at 3100 SW College Rd and were cleared at the identical minute, 10:36 a.m. The simultaneous closure and simultaneous clearance of two adjacent restaurants for the same pest type, rodents, points to a shared infestation likely originating in the building's common infrastructure rather than in either kitchen independently.
Bud's Chicken and Seafood in North Palm Beach held the longest closure window of any facility in this period, more than eight hours between shutdown and clearance. For a roach-only closure, that duration is notable. Most roach closures in this dataset resolved within four to six hours. An extended clearance time typically reflects either a more severe infestation requiring additional treatment, difficulty reaching a pest control contractor quickly, or inspectors who required more extensive corrective action before signing off.
The Ramada by Wyndham in Jacksonville and CJ Crab House, also in Jacksonville, made that city the only one to produce two separate triple-category closures in the same two-day window. Both facilities drew rodent, roach, and fly citations within 24 hours of each other at addresses roughly six miles apart. Whether that reflects seasonal conditions common to the area or unrelated coincidence, the record shows Jacksonville accounting for two of the four most severe closures in the state during this period.
The fastest clearance in the dataset, Rustic Dough Works in Palm Coast at 8:32 a.m. on July 9, means the bakery was inspected, shut, and cleared before most of its breakfast customers would have arrived. That speed is not necessarily reassuring. A closure that resolves in under an hour raises questions about what corrective action was possible in that window and what the inspector found on reinspection that satisfied the standard for reopening.
