KISSIMMEE, FL. State inspectors ordered Winghouse Bar & Grill on West Vine Street closed on April 23 after finding both roach and rodent activity inside the restaurant, the third time the Kissimmee location has been emergency-closed in just over a year.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation issued the closure order and required the restaurant to vacate by April 24. Inspectors returned the following morning and, finding the facility had addressed the violations, allowed it to reopen at 9:17 a.m. that same day.
What Inspectors Found
Winghouse Bar & Grill: Recent Inspection Record
The April 23 inspection that triggered the closure cited roach and rodent activity as the grounds for the emergency shutdown. The inspection report logged one intermediate violation on that date. A follow-up inspection conducted April 24 showed zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations remaining.
The speed of the turnaround, from closure order to reopening in less than 24 hours, is not unusual for pest-related shutdowns. It does not mean the underlying conditions that allowed the infestation to develop have been resolved.
What This Means
Roach and rodent activity inside a food service establishment is not a paperwork violation. Both cockroaches and rodents are documented carriers of pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria. They move between sewage, garbage, and food preparation surfaces, depositing bacteria along the way.
Rodents gnaw through food packaging, contaminating contents they never directly touch. Their droppings and urine are left on the same surfaces where food is prepped and plated. Cockroaches travel through drains and grease traps, then walk across cutting boards, utensils, and uncovered food.
The danger is not theoretical. Customers eating food prepared in a kitchen with active pest presence are consuming food that may have been in contact with those contaminants without any visible sign of it. That is precisely why the state treats confirmed pest activity as grounds for immediate closure rather than a correction order.
A same-day or next-day reopening after a pest closure means an inspector returned and found the immediate evidence addressed. It does not mean the pest pressure is gone. Roach and rodent populations are not eliminated in hours.
The Pattern
This was not a single bad inspection. The Kissimmee Winghouse has now been emergency-closed three times, with the first of the two prior closures documented in state records occurring on March 24, 2026, for rodent activity. That closure was resolved the same day it was ordered.
Less than a month later, on April 23, inspectors were back and found both roaches and rodents.
The inspection record stretching back through 2025 shows a facility that has not had a clean stretch in recent memory. The September 15, 2025, inspection produced four high-severity and three intermediate violations. The September 30 follow-up still showed two high-severity violations. February 2026 brought two more high-severity citations. March 24 produced the worst single-day tally in the recent record, five high-severity and five intermediate violations, before inspectors returned hours later and ordered the restaurant closed for rodent activity.
That is six consecutive inspections with high-severity violations before the April 23 closure.
The Longer Record
The West Vine Street location has accumulated 205 violations across 26 inspections on record with the state. That is an average of nearly eight violations per inspection visit, though the recent trajectory runs well above that average.
Two prior emergency closures are documented in the facility's file. Both occurred within a six-week window in early 2026. The April 23 closure is the third.
Facilities with this kind of inspection history fall into a recognizable category: repeated correction of immediate violations without resolution of the underlying conditions that generate them. Each closure is followed by a passing inspection. Each passing inspection is followed, weeks or months later, by another round of high-severity citations. The cycle in this record is visible and consistent.
The restaurant is listed as a licensed permanent food service operation. It was allowed to reopen the morning of April 24 after inspectors found the immediate violations addressed.
Whether the conditions that have produced three emergency closures and 205 documented violations over the life of this location have been durably corrected is not something a single follow-up inspection can confirm.