DAVIE, FL. State inspectors ordered Rumroasters shut down on May 12 after documenting roach and fly activity inside the coffee and beverage shop at 2021 SW 70 Ave Bay 14, a finding serious enough to trigger an emergency closure order and require the facility to vacate by the following day.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation issued the emergency closure order on May 12. Records show the facility had been licensed for food service at the time of the inspection.
What Inspectors Found
Inspectors cited both roach activity and fly activity inside Rumroasters, triggering an immediate emergency shutdown order on May 12, 2026.
The closure-triggering violations were roach activity and fly activity documented inside the facility. Both findings appeared in the same inspection, and together they were sufficient for inspectors to order the business shuttered the same day.
The facility was ordered vacated by May 13. State records show it reopened the following morning at 8:56 a.m., suggesting a rapid overnight correction effort.
What This Means
Roach and fly activity inside a food preparation or service environment is not a paperwork violation. Cockroaches carry bacteria including Salmonella and E. coli on their bodies and legs, and they deposit those pathogens directly onto food surfaces, equipment, and open food as they move through a kitchen.
Flies present a parallel contamination risk. A fly that lands on food, a prep surface, or a cup rim transfers whatever it last touched, and in a food service environment that transfer happens invisibly and repeatedly throughout a service period.
The combination of both pest types in a single inspection is what triggers emergency action rather than a warning or a scheduled follow-up. Florida's emergency closure authority exists precisely for situations where inspectors judge that allowing a facility to continue operating poses an immediate risk to customers who would have no way of knowing that risk existed.
A customer who ordered a drink at Rumroasters on May 12 before the inspector arrived had no indication that roaches or flies had been active in the space where that drink was prepared.
The Longer Record
The inspection history for this location is short, because it does not exist. State records show zero prior inspections on record for Rumroasters at this address, zero prior violations documented, and zero prior emergency closures before May 12.
That absence of prior inspection history is itself a data point. It means there is no documented baseline for conditions at this facility before the closure, no prior warnings that went unaddressed, and no pattern of repeat violations to examine. The May 12 inspection is, as far as state records show, the first time an inspector walked through this location.
A facility with 40 prior inspections and a closure tells one story, that inspectors had visited repeatedly and conditions deteriorated anyway. Rumroasters tells a different one. This closure was the first documented encounter between state inspectors and this location, and it ended in an emergency shutdown order.
The Reopening
Records show Rumroasters reopened at 8:56 a.m. on what appears to be May 13, the same deadline by which the facility had been ordered to vacate. A reopening at that hour indicates a follow-up inspection was conducted and the facility was judged to have met state standards overnight.
That timeline, from closure order to reopening in under 24 hours, is consistent with other emergency closures in Broward County where owners respond immediately, bring in pest control, clean the facility, and pass a follow-up inspection the next morning.
What a rapid reopening does not resolve is the question of how roach and fly activity reached the level that warranted an emergency closure in the first place, particularly at a location with no prior inspection history to suggest the problems had been building over time.
State records confirm the facility was licensed for food service at the time of the closure. No owner or manager response to the closure was available in the inspection records.