ORANGE PARK, FL. Rodent activity forced the emergency closure of Randevou Caribbean Bar and Grill II on Blanding Boulevard on April 20, the fifth time state inspectors have ordered the Orange Park restaurant shut down and the second time in just over two months that rodents were the reason.

Inspectors documented six high-severity violations and three intermediate violations during the April 20 visit. The following morning, a reinspection found zero high-severity violations and zero intermediate violations, and the restaurant was cleared to reopen at 9:06 a.m. on April 21.

What Inspectors Found

Randevou Caribbean Bar and Grill II: Emergency Closure History

April 20, 2026Emergency closure for rodent activity. 6 high-severity, 3 intermediate violations. Reopened April 21.
February 17, 2026Emergency closure for rodent activity. 11 high-severity, 3 intermediate violations. Reopened February 18.
September 18, 2025Routine inspection. 10 high-severity, 1 intermediate violation. No closure ordered.
April 18, 2025Routine inspection. 9 high-severity, 2 intermediate violations. No closure ordered.
February 11, 2025Emergency closure for fly activity. Reopened February 12.
April 30, 2020Emergency closure for roach activity. Reopened May 1, 2020.

The closure-triggering violation was rodent activity, the same finding that prompted the restaurant's most recent prior shutdown on February 17, just 62 days earlier. That February inspection produced 11 high-severity violations and three intermediate violations before the restaurant cleared a reinspection the next day.

Between those two rodent closures, inspectors visited on April 7 and found zero high-severity violations. The restaurant had apparently resolved the February issues, at least temporarily.

A Pattern Across Six Years

The April 20 closure was the fifth emergency shutdown in the restaurant's documented history and the fourth tied directly to pest activity. The earliest on record came in April 2020, when roach activity prompted a closure that was resolved within a day. In February 2025, fly activity triggered another shutdown, again resolved by the following morning.

The rodent closures of February and April 2026 mark the first time the restaurant has been shut down twice in the same calendar year for the same category of violation.

Outside the closure events, the inspection record shows persistent high-severity findings. In September 2025, inspectors cited 10 high-severity violations during a routine visit. In April 2025, the count was nine high-severity violations. Neither of those inspections resulted in an emergency closure order, but both came in the months surrounding the February 2025 fly-activity shutdown.

The full record across 31 inspections totals 250 violations.

What Rodent Activity Means for Customers

Rodent activity in a food service environment is one of the conditions Florida law treats as an immediate threat to public health, which is why it carries the authority to order a restaurant vacated rather than simply cited and corrected.

The risk is direct. Rodents carry bacteria including Salmonella and Leptospira, and they shed those pathogens through droppings, urine, and contact with food surfaces, utensils, and stored ingredients. A customer eating food that has been contaminated by rodent contact has no way of knowing it. There is no visible sign, no altered taste.

The presence of rodents also signals a failure in multiple layers of food safety at once. It means gaps in the physical structure of the building, failures in food storage practices, and a breakdown in pest control monitoring. When inspectors document rodent activity, they are documenting the end result of several earlier failures, not just a single lapse.

The February 2026 closure, which also cited rodents, produced 11 high-severity violations alongside the pest finding. The April closure added six more high-severity violations before the restaurant was cleared. The back-to-back pattern suggests the conditions that attract rodents were not fully resolved between the two inspections.

The Longer Record

Thirty-one inspections over the course of the restaurant's documented history have produced 250 total violations, an average of more than eight violations per visit. That volume alone places the facility well outside the range of occasional compliance lapses.

The four prior emergency closures span six years and three different pest categories: roaches in 2020, flies in 2025, and rodents twice in the first four months of 2026. No other pest type has appeared twice in the closure record except rodents, which have now done so within a single 62-day window.

The inspection dates that did not result in closures are also telling. The September 2025 visit, seven months before the first rodent closure, found 10 high-severity violations. The April 2025 visit found nine. Both of those inspections took place in the same calendar year as the February 2025 fly-activity closure. The restaurant has not recorded a full calendar year without either a closure or a double-digit high-severity violation count since at least 2025.

The April 7, 2026 inspection found zero high-severity violations, thirteen days before the April 20 rodent closure. The restaurant passed that visit cleanly and was shut down less than two weeks later.