RIVERVIEW, FL. State inspectors ordered Rotis Indian Restaurant on US Highway 301 closed on June 24 after finding rodent and fly activity inside the kitchen, the fourth time the Riverview restaurant has been emergency-closed since December 2025 and the third time rodents specifically triggered the shutdown.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation ordered the restaurant vacated by June 25. Inspectors returned the following day and cleared the facility, which reopened at 1:01 p.m. on June 25.
What Inspectors Found
Rotis Indian Restaurant: Emergency Closure History
The June 24 closure was triggered by a combination of rodent and fly activity, the same category of pest violation that prompted the restaurant's shutdown in February and again in December 2025. The specific documentation from the June 24 inspection shows one intermediate violation recorded alongside the closure order.
Inspectors returned June 25 and found no high-severity and no intermediate violations, clearing the restaurant to reopen that afternoon.
What This Means
Rodent activity inside a food service kitchen is among the most serious violations inspectors can document. Rodents move through a facility continuously, contaminating surfaces, equipment, and food with droppings, urine, and fur. Unlike a single temperature violation that affects one item on one day, rodent activity is a systemic problem, meaning every surface the animals have touched is a potential exposure point for customers.
Fly activity compounds the risk. Flies carry bacteria on their bodies and legs and transfer it to any food surface they land on. When inspectors document both rodents and flies in the same facility at the same time, the contamination pathways multiply.
Both violations justify an emergency closure under Florida law because the risk to customers eating there is immediate. A customer has no way to know, from a menu or a dining room, whether the food they are served was prepared in a kitchen where rodents were active the night before.
The Pattern
The June 24 closure was not a sudden finding. The inspection record at this address shows a facility that has cycled through emergency closures, follow-up inspections, and reopenings repeatedly over a seven-month window.
The first emergency closure at this location in recent history came on December 9, 2025, for rodent activity. The restaurant passed its follow-up inspection and reopened the next day, December 10.
Less than ten weeks later, on February 12, 2026, inspectors returned and found rodent activity again. That closure required two follow-up inspections, on February 13 and February 14, before the restaurant was cleared to reopen. Both of those follow-up visits still documented high-severity violations, two each time, alongside multiple intermediate violations.
The April 15, 2026 inspection, roughly two months after the February closure, produced the most serious single-day finding in recent months: six high-severity violations and five intermediate violations. That inspection did not result in an emergency closure, but the violation count was the highest recorded at the facility in the recent inspection window.
Then came June 24.
The Longer Record
Rotis has accumulated 274 violations across 33 inspections on record at this address, a rate that works out to more than eight violations per inspection on average. The facility has now been emergency-closed four times total, with three of those closures specifically attributed to rodent activity.
The pattern across the three rodent-related closures is consistent: inspectors find rodents, the restaurant clears a follow-up inspection within one to two days, reopens, and then inspectors find rodents again weeks or months later. The December 2025 closure was resolved in one day. The February 2026 closure took two days and two follow-up inspections. The June 2026 closure was resolved in one day.
What the record does not show is a sustained period without high-severity violations between closures. The February 13 and February 14 follow-up inspections, conducted after the February 12 closure, each still documented two high-severity violations. A facility that passes a follow-up inspection and then logs six high-severity violations six weeks later, as happened in April, is not a facility that resolved its underlying compliance problems.
The restaurant has been in operation long enough to have 33 inspections on record. Three emergency closures for the same violation category at the same address, across a span of roughly seven months, is a documented pattern, not an isolated incident.
Rotis passed its June 25 follow-up inspection and was cleared to reopen. Whether the conditions that produced four emergency closures in seven months have been addressed in any lasting way is a question the inspection record has not yet answered.
