ORLANDO, FL. State inspectors ordered Temak House Sushi Fusion on International Drive closed on August 19 after documenting roach activity inside the restaurant, the second emergency closure in the facility's history.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation gave the restaurant until August 21 to vacate. Inspectors returned that same day, found no remaining high-severity or intermediate violations, and allowed the restaurant to reopen at 10:21 a.m.
What Inspectors Found
Temak House Sushi Fusion: Recent Inspection Record
The closure-triggering inspection on August 19 produced 8 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations. That number matched exactly what inspectors had already documented at the same restaurant the day before, on August 18, when they recorded the same tally: 8 high-severity, 2 intermediate.
Two consecutive inspections on back-to-back days carrying 8 high-severity violations each, with roach activity confirmed by the second visit. That sequence is what drove the emergency order.
A follow-up inspection conducted the morning of August 21 found zero high-severity violations and zero intermediate violations, clearing the path for the restaurant to resume service.
What This Means
Roach activity is among the most serious findings an inspector can document inside a food service facility. Cockroaches carry pathogens on their bodies, including salmonella and E. coli, and deposit them on food-contact surfaces, preparation areas, and stored ingredients simply by moving through a kitchen.
Unlike a temperature violation, which poses risk only to specific food items at a specific moment, a roach infestation spreads contamination across an entire kitchen environment. Every surface the insects travel across becomes a potential transmission point for a customer who eats food prepared there.
That is why Florida inspectors have authority to order an immediate shutdown rather than issue a correction notice and return later. The risk is not theoretical and it is not contained to one dish or one station.
The fact that inspectors found the same high-severity violation count on August 18 and again on August 19 suggests the conditions that produced the roach activity were present and unaddressed for at least two days before the closure order was issued.
The Pattern
The August closure was not an isolated event in the restaurant's record. Across 41 inspections on file, Temak House Sushi Fusion has accumulated 304 total violations. This is the second time the state has issued an emergency closure order against the facility.
The inspection history for the twelve months leading up to the shutdown shows persistent high-severity findings. In September 2025, inspectors documented 6 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations. In November 2025, the count was 3 high-severity and 1 intermediate. April 2025 produced 4 high-severity and 2 intermediate violations.
None of those visits resulted in a closure. But none of them produced a clean report, either.
The December 2025 inspection was the lightest of the recent visits, with 1 high-severity and 1 intermediate violation. That relative improvement did not hold. By August 18, 2026, the facility was back to 8 high-severity violations in a single inspection.
The Longer Record
Forty-one inspections and 304 violations represent one of the heavier cumulative records for a single facility on International Drive, a corridor that sees high inspection frequency given its density of tourist-facing restaurants.
The prior emergency closure means this is not the first time regulators determined conditions inside the restaurant posed an immediate threat to public health requiring the doors to be shut. The data does not indicate when that first closure occurred, but the pattern of repeated high-severity findings across multiple inspection cycles suggests the facility has cycled through periods of compliance and relapse more than once.
What the August 2026 sequence makes clear is that inspectors visited on August 18, found 8 high-severity violations, and the conditions that produced those violations were still present when inspectors returned the following day.
The restaurant reopened August 21 after clearing its callback inspection. Whether the underlying conditions that allowed roach activity to develop have been durably corrected, or whether the facility will return to the pattern visible in its 41-inspection record, is a question the next routine inspection will answer.
