RIVERVIEW, FL. State inspectors ordered Rotis Indian Grill at 13025 US Hwy 301 S closed on August 11 after documenting rodent activity inside the restaurant, the fifth time inspectors have shut the location down for the same category of violation since December 2025.
The closure order required the restaurant to vacate by August 12. Records show the restaurant reopened later that same day at 11:28 a.m., following a reinspection that found four high-severity violations still on file.
What Inspectors Found
Rotis Indian Grill: Emergency Closure History
The August 11 inspection that triggered the closure documented two high-severity violations. A separate inspection conducted the same day, apparently as part of the same enforcement sequence, recorded four high-severity violations and two intermediate violations.
The reinspection on August 12, the day the restaurant was required to vacate, still found four high-severity violations, though inspectors allowed it to reopen.
The most recent inspection on record, conducted August 27, found no high-severity violations and only two intermediate violations: multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, and single-use items being improperly reused.
What These Violations Mean
Rodent activity is among the violations state inspectors treat as grounds for immediate closure because the risk is direct and hard to contain. Rodents move through a kitchen at night, contacting food preparation surfaces, stored ingredients, and equipment. Their droppings and urine are not visible to customers and are not reliably eliminated by routine cleaning.
The two intermediate violations that remained on the August 27 inspection carry their own risks. Improperly cleaned multi-use utensils develop bacterial biofilms within 24 hours of inadequate cleaning. Those biofilms protect bacteria from standard sanitizers, meaning contamination can persist across multiple service periods even when staff believe the utensil has been cleaned.
Reusing single-use items, the second violation cited on August 27, creates a separate contamination pathway. Items like gloves, cups, and foil are manufactured without the surface durability needed to survive repeated cleaning, which means pathogens can embed in microscopic surface damage after the first use.
Neither of the August 27 violations rose to the high-severity threshold. But both appeared in a restaurant that had just been closed for the fifth time in eight months.
The Longer Record
The August 11 closure was not an isolated event for this location. State records show 41 inspections and 326 total violations at the Rotis Indian Grill address, along with five emergency closures, all involving rodent activity, rodent and fly activity, or both.
The first closure on record came December 9, 2025, for rodent activity. The restaurant reopened the next day. A second closure followed on February 12, 2026, again for rodent activity, and the restaurant was closed for two days before passing reinspection.
The pace accelerated in the summer. Inspectors closed the restaurant on June 24 for rodent and fly activity. It reopened June 25. Less than six weeks later, on August 4, inspectors returned and closed it again, this time also citing fly activity. That closure lasted one day.
The August 4 inspection, conducted before that closure, was the most violation-heavy in the recent stretch: seven high-severity violations and four intermediate violations in a single visit. A follow-up inspection the same day, August 5, still found four high-severity and two intermediate violations before the restaurant was cleared to reopen.
Seven days later, on August 11, inspectors were back. The rodent activity finding triggered the fifth closure.
The Pattern
Each of the five closures at this location resulted in a reinspection that cleared the restaurant to reopen, typically within one to two days. That sequence, closure followed by rapid reinspection and reopening, repeating across eight months, is what the full record shows.
The July 28 inspection, conducted between the June closure and the August closures, found zero high-severity violations and zero intermediate violations. Eleven days later, on August 4, inspectors documented seven high-severity violations.
The August 27 inspection found no high-severity violations, the cleanest result in months. Whether that marks a turning point or a pause in the pattern is not something the current record answers.
The restaurant was licensed for permanent food service at the time of each closure.
