GULF PORT, FL. Roach activity inside Siri's Gourmet Burgers & Pizza at 2813 Beach Blvd triggered an emergency closure on August 25, the sixth time state inspectors have ordered the restaurant to shut its doors and the fifth time pest activity was the reason.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation ordered the restaurant vacated by August 29. It cleared reinspection and reopened at 10:03 a.m. that same day.
What Inspectors Found
Siri's Closure and Inspection Timeline, Aug. 25–29, 2026
The closure triggered six inspections over five days before the restaurant met state standards. On August 25 and again on August 26, inspectors documented three high-severity violations and two intermediate violations at each visit. The high-severity count did not drop to zero until August 28.
That four-day arc, six visits across five days before inspectors were satisfied, reflects how persistent the conditions were once the closure was ordered.
What This Means for Customers
Roach activity is one of the violations most likely to trigger an immediate emergency closure under Florida law, and for direct reasons. Cockroaches carry pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli, and Staphylococcus on their bodies and in their droppings. They move between waste and food contact surfaces without any of the barriers, handwashing or temperature controls, that other food safety rules are designed to create.
An active roach infestation in a food preparation environment means those pathogens can transfer directly to food, prep surfaces, utensils, and equipment that customers never see. Unlike a temperature violation that affects a specific dish, roach contamination is diffuse. There is no way to identify which items were affected or when contact occurred.
The risk is not theoretical. It is the reason Florida law gives inspectors authority to close a restaurant immediately, without a warning period, when live roach activity is found.
The Longer Record
The August 25 closure was not an anomaly at this address. State records show Siri's Gourmet Burgers & Pizza has accumulated 341 violations across 46 inspections, and has been emergency-closed six times total, with the first documented closure in March 2020.
That first closure, on March 19, 2020, was for rodent activity. The restaurant cleared reinspection the following day. Two months later, on May 19, 2020, inspectors returned and found rodent activity again. That closure was resolved the same day.
The pattern then shifted from rodents to roaches. On July 25, 2025, the restaurant was closed for roach activity and cleared the next day. Less than three months later, on October 9, 2025, inspectors closed it again, this time for both roach and fly activity. It reopened October 10.
A December 2025 inspection documented four high-severity violations and one intermediate violation, the highest single-visit high-severity count in the recent record. That inspection came roughly two months after the October closure.
Then, on August 25, 2026, the sixth closure.
A Pattern Inspectors Keep Documenting
What the record shows is a facility that has been closed for pest-related violations in five of its six emergency shutdowns, across a span of more than six years. The 2020 closures involved rodents. Every closure since 2025 has involved roaches, including one that also cited fly activity.
Each closure was followed by a relatively quick resolution: one day in most cases, four days in this most recent instance. The rapid reopenings suggest the restaurant can address the immediate conditions that trigger closure. What the record does not show is any sustained period without serious violations.
Forty-six inspections and 341 total violations across the facility's history place it among the more heavily scrutinized permanent food service operations in Pinellas County. Six emergency closures at a single address is a number most restaurants in the county never approach.
The restaurant reopened the morning of August 29 after clearing a final inspection with zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations. Whether the conditions that produced the sixth closure, and the five before it, have been addressed in any lasting way is a question the next inspection will answer.
