SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FL. Three Jacksonville restaurants were emergency-closed within 13 days in late July 2026, every one of them shut down for pest activity, a stretch that included a national chain, a neighborhood diner, and a wings-and-grill concept all failing on the same basic threshold.
The closures ran from July 17 through July 21. All three restaurants have since reopened. But the sequence of findings, rodents at two locations, flies at two, and raw sewage at one, adds up to a concentrated stretch of pest and sanitation failures at dining establishments spread across Jacksonville's south and east corridors.
The Worst of the Three
Twin Peaks Restaurant at 11892 Atlantic Blvd drew the most serious combination of findings. State inspectors documented both rodent activity and fly activity at the location, triggering an emergency closure on July 21. The restaurant is part of a national sports-bar chain known for its mountain-lodge aesthetic and heavy customer traffic, which makes the dual pest citation notable.
Twin Peaks reopened the same day at 9:36 a.m., meaning the closure lasted only a matter of hours. Whether that turnaround reflects a rapid remediation or a minimal corrective action is not reflected in the available records.
What Inspectors Found at Each Location
Kathy's Table at 2345 W Beaver St was the first restaurant closed during this period, shut down on July 17 for rodent activity. The West Beaver Street location sits in a densely commercial stretch of Jacksonville's westside. Kathy's Table reopened that same morning at 10:08 a.m.
Dick's Wings and Grill at 10550 Old St Augustine Rd, Suite 30 was also closed on July 17, the same day as Kathy's Table, but for a different combination of problems. Inspectors cited a sewage issue alongside fly activity, a pairing that points to a breakdown in both the facility's plumbing and its pest control at the same time.
Dick's Wings reopened at 8:48 a.m. on July 17, the earliest reopening of the three closures. The Old St. Augustine Road location is part of a regional wings chain with multiple Jacksonville-area outlets.
All three closures were resolved the same day they were ordered, each before 11 a.m. That pattern of rapid reopening is common in Florida emergency closure cases, but it does not erase the conditions that triggered the shutdown in the first place.
What These Violations Mean
Rodent activity inside a food-service establishment is one of the fastest paths to an emergency closure under Florida law, and for direct reasons. Rodents carry Salmonella, Leptospira, and Hantavirus, and they shed those pathogens through droppings, urine, and direct contact with food surfaces. At both Kathy's Table and Twin Peaks, inspectors documented evidence of rodents in active food-preparation or food-storage environments.
The practical risk to customers is not theoretical. Anyone who ate at either restaurant in the days before the inspection could have consumed food that contacted rodent droppings or was stored near rodent pathways. Salmonella infections from contaminated food surfaces do not always produce immediate symptoms, and cases are frequently never traced back to a specific meal.
Fly activity, cited at both Twin Peaks and Dick's Wings, carries its own contamination risk. Flies transfer bacteria from surfaces they land on, including garbage, drains, and animal waste, directly onto food and prep equipment. The concern is not a single fly near a window. It is flies documented in sufficient numbers and in sufficient proximity to food that an inspector concludes they represent an imminent health hazard.
The sewage issue at Dick's Wings is the most acute finding in this group. A sewage backup or overflow introduces fecal bacteria, including E. coli and Norovirus, into a food-service environment at a volume that surface cleaning cannot address without full remediation. The combination of sewage and fly activity at one location means flies had access to sewage-contaminated surfaces and then to food areas.
The Longer Record
None of the three closures this period occurred at locations with a documented prior closure at the same address, meaning none of these are repeat-closure facilities based on available records. That framing cuts two ways. It means none of these restaurants had already been through the emergency-closure process and failed to prevent a recurrence. It also means that for customers who assumed a clean prior record indicated a safe kitchen, the findings arrived without warning.
Twin Peaks on Atlantic Boulevard, as a high-volume national chain location, carries a longer inspection history by nature of its traffic and operational scale. The dual pest citation, rodents and flies simultaneously, is not a minor threshold failure. It suggests that pest control measures were either not in place or not functioning at the time of the July 21 inspection.
Kathy's Table and Dick's Wings both reopened within hours of closure, which the state treats as evidence that the cited conditions were corrected. But the speed of those corrections also raises a question the records do not answer: how long had the conditions existed before an inspector arrived.
Dick's Wings and Grill on Old St. Augustine Road remains the most unresolved case in this group. A sewage issue combined with fly activity is not a violation that a cleaning crew resolves by mopping a floor. Sewage remediation requires plumbing repair, surface disinfection, and in some cases structural work. The restaurant reopened at 8:48 a.m. on July 17, less than a full business day after the closure was ordered, and the records do not specify what corrective steps were completed before the doors reopened.
