FLORIDA. Inspectors found rodents, live roaches, and flies all in the same building during a single visit to Kazu Sushi Burrito at 117 W Adams St in Jacksonville on October 13, triggering an emergency closure that lasted until 11:11 a.m. the following morning. It was the most compounded pest finding of a two-week stretch that produced 23 emergency closures statewide, from a golf club in Miami Shores to a dessert shop in Spring Hill to a Denny's franchise in Plantation.
Fourteen of the 23 closures were roach-related. Six involved rodent activity. The remaining three involved flies or combinations that included flies alongside roaches or rodents.
The Two Weeks in Detail
The period opened on October 9 with two closures in a single day. Call Street Café at 111 Call St in Starke was shut down for rodent, roach, and fly activity simultaneously, making it one of only two facilities in the two-week period to draw all three pest categories at once. It reopened at 8:10 a.m. the following morning.
Also on October 9, Miami Shores Golf Club at 10000 Biscayne Blvd in Miami Shores was closed for a combination of roach and rodent activity. The facility reopened at 9:13 a.m. the next day. A golf club kitchen serving a recreational venue is not the setting most diners associate with pest infestations, but the inspection record is unambiguous.
October 12 brought five more closures across the state. Azul Tequila Mexican Restaurant LLC at 1121 E Oak St in Arcadia was ordered closed for rodent activity and reopened at 10:01 a.m. the next day.
Rotis Indian Restaurant at 13025 US Hwy 301 S in Riverview drew a rodent closure the same day and reopened at 11:53 a.m.
Keke's Breakfast Café at 7609 State Rd 7 in Parkland was closed for fly activity on October 12 and back open by 9:24 a.m. the following morning.
Miami Crab and Seafood Restaurant at 20723 NW 2 Ave in Miami Gardens was shut for rodent activity and reopened at 9:07 a.m. the next day.
Josie's Egg Station at 1625 Shepherd Rd in Lakeland closed October 12 for roach activity, reopening at 11:49 a.m.
October 13 was the single busiest day of the period, with four closures. In addition to Kazu Sushi Burrito, Fuji 3 at 11362 San Jose Blvd in Jacksonville was closed the same day for roach activity alone, reopening at 4:18 p.m. Two restaurants in the same city, shut on the same day, for pest activity.
Joey's Pizza at 1312 Seven Springs Blvd in New Port Richey was closed October 13 for roach activity and reopened at 8:54 a.m. the next morning.
Caribbean Sandwich Shop and Bakery at 8240 W Waters Ave in Tampa was also closed October 13 for roach activity, reopening at 2:49 p.m. the following day, one of the longer turnarounds in the two-week period.
October 14 produced five more closures. Broad St Diner at 125 Broad St in Titusville was closed for rodent activity and back open by 8:09 a.m. the next morning.
Wings and More at 2525 W Davie Blvd in Fort Lauderdale was ordered closed for a combination of roach and fly activity, reopening at 10:36 a.m.
Gomez Mexican Grill at 14561 Palm Beach Blvd in Fort Myers was shut for roach activity and reopened at 9:20 a.m.
Denny's at 12100 W Sunrise Blvd in Plantation was emergency-closed for roach and fly activity combined, reopening by 8:56 a.m. the next day. A national chain franchise drawing a dual-pest closure is not a minor footnote.
Parched Oak at 145 N Woodland Blvd in Deland was closed October 14 for rodent activity and reopened at 8:18 a.m.
Cypress Creek Golf Club at 1011 Cypress Village Blvd in Sun City Center was also closed October 14 for rodent activity, but did not reopen until 1:02 p.m., one of the later reopenings in the dataset. Two golf club kitchens closed for pest activity in the same two-week period is a detail the data makes hard to ignore.
October 15 brought five closures in a single day. Monkey Bar of Clearwater at 1681 Gulf to Bay Blvd was shut for roach activity, and its reopening status remains unknown in state records.
Riverview Fresh Cuisine at 9005 E Adamo Dr in Tampa was closed for a combination of roach and fly activity, reopening at 9:16 a.m.
Crafted Dessert Co at 120 Commercial Way in Spring Hill was closed for roach activity and reopened at 9:40 a.m.
Breakfast Station at 8405 Northcliffe Blvd in Spring Hill was also closed October 15 for roach activity, reopening at 8:24 a.m. Two Spring Hill restaurants shut on the same day for the same violation type.
Sub City at 19900 NW 2 Ave in Miami Gardens was closed October 15, though its closure was for temperature violations in storage rather than pest activity. It reopened at 8:59 a.m.
On October 16, Ice Spot at 13499 S Cleveland Ave in Fort Myers was closed for fly activity and reopened at 9:07 a.m. Fort Myers recorded two emergency closures across the two-week period.
What These Violations Mean
Live pest activity inside a food service establishment is not a paperwork problem. Roaches travel between sewage lines, garbage, and food preparation surfaces within the same building, depositing bacteria including Salmonella and E. coli on every surface they cross. When an inspector documents live roaches during an active service period, as occurred at multiple facilities in this period, that means the contamination route is open in real time.
Rodent activity carries a different and in some ways more serious risk profile. Rodent droppings contain Hantavirus, Salmonella, and Leptospira. Unlike roaches, which tend to concentrate near moisture and food debris, rodents range widely through a facility, meaning droppings can appear in dry storage, behind equipment, and in areas that food handlers may not inspect regularly. The closures at Parched Oak in Deland, Broad St Diner in Titusville, Rotis Indian Restaurant in Riverview, and Miami Crab and Seafood Restaurant in Miami Gardens all involved rodent activity.
Fly activity is often treated as the least alarming of the three pest categories, but the closures at Keke's Breakfast Café in Parkland, Ice Spot in Fort Myers, and the more complex dual-pest closures at Wings and More in Fort Lauderdale and Denny's in Plantation tell a different story. Flies transfer pathogens from waste to food surfaces within seconds of landing, and a fly population large enough to trigger an emergency closure represents a contamination risk across every exposed food item in the facility.
The two facilities closed for all three pest types simultaneously, Kazu Sushi Burrito in Jacksonville and Call Street Café in Starke, represent the most acute risk profile in the dataset. When rodents, roaches, and flies are all present at once, it indicates a facility where multiple sanitation systems have broken down at the same time.
The Longer Record
Most of the 23 facilities in this period reopened within 24 hours, some within a few hours of the following morning's inspection window. That speed of correction is worth noting, but it does not erase the question of how the conditions developed in the first place.
The Monkey Bar of Clearwater stands apart from the rest of the closures in one specific way: its reopening status is listed as unknown in state records. Every other facility in the two-week period has a documented reopening time. The Monkey Bar does not.
The dual golf club closures, Miami Shores Golf Club on October 9 and Cypress Creek Golf Club on October 14, are a pattern that the data supports but does not fully explain. Both are food service operations attached to recreational facilities, both were closed for pest activity, and both fall within the same two-week window. Cypress Creek did not reopen until 1:02 p.m., suggesting the remediation required more than an overnight cleaning.
The concentration of closures on October 13 and 15, four closures each day, points to inspection scheduling as much as it points to any single regional outbreak of pest activity. Florida inspectors work on rotating schedules, and a high-volume inspection day will produce more closure orders simply because more facilities are being examined. That context does not diminish the findings at any individual location, but it explains why the calendar clusters the way it does.
The Monkey Bar of Clearwater, closed October 15 for roach activity, remains the one unresolved entry in the dataset. Its status in state records is unknown.
