POMPANO BEACH, FL. Inspectors who walked into 1804 Pizza on South Federal Highway on June 29 found food sourced from suppliers with no verified safety credentials, employees who had not reported illness symptoms as required, and food that had not reached the minimum cooking temperature needed to kill Salmonella. The restaurant was not closed.
The inspection produced nine high-severity violations and one intermediate citation, the most serious single-visit tally in the facility's documented history. State regulators left the restaurant operating.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation sits at the top of the list for a specific reason. Ingredients purchased outside the regulated supply chain carry no traceability. If a customer gets sick, investigators cannot trace the food back to its origin. That gap is not administrative, it is the difference between containing an outbreak and losing it.
The undercooking citation compounds that risk directly. Poultry that does not reach 165 degrees Fahrenheit retains live Salmonella. At a pizza operation where chicken toppings or protein add-ons pass through an oven, temperature compliance is the last line of defense between the kitchen and the customer's plate.
Toxic chemicals stored improperly near food represent a separate and immediate hazard. Mislabeled or misplaced cleaning agents have caused acute poisoning events with no warning. The inspector cited this violation alongside the food safety failures, not instead of them.
The Employee Health Breakdown
Three of the nine high-severity violations were tied directly to employee illness protocols. The restaurant had no written employee health policy. Employees were not reporting illness symptoms as required. And when employees did attempt to wash their hands, inspectors found both the frequency and the technique inadequate.
These three citations, taken together, describe a facility where a sick employee could prepare food, serve customers, and face no internal check at any point in that process. Norovirus, which accounts for roughly 20 million infections annually in the United States, spreads most efficiently through exactly this pathway.
The person in charge was either not present or not performing required oversight duties. CDC research links the absence of active managerial control to inspection records with three times the rate of critical violations. The June 29 record at 1804 Pizza is consistent with that finding.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of unapproved food sourcing and undercooking is particularly serious for customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or very young. Those groups face the highest risk from Listeria and Salmonella, the two pathogens most directly associated with the violations cited here. Neither pathogen announces itself in the food's appearance or smell.
The absence of a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items means customers in those high-risk categories had no warning that certain preparations on the menu carried elevated risk. The advisory requirement exists precisely to give vulnerable diners a chance to make an informed choice. It was not there.
Improperly cleaned multi-use utensils, the single intermediate violation, add a bacterial biofilm problem on top of everything else. Biofilms form within 24 hours on inadequately cleaned surfaces and resist standard sanitization. Utensils that carry biofilm from one service to the next function as a persistent contamination source regardless of what food safety steps are taken elsewhere.
The Longer Record
1804 Pizza: Recent Inspection Pattern
The June 29 inspection was the 28th on record for this facility. Across those 28 visits, inspectors have documented 178 total violations. There has never been an emergency closure.
The trajectory is not ambiguous. The restaurant logged two high-severity violations in July 2025. By November 2025, that count had doubled to four. By February 2026, it was five. By June 2026, it was nine. Each of the last four inspections has produced more high-severity citations than the one before it.
High-severity violations in the same categories recur across multiple inspection cycles. Employee illness reporting, handwashing, and managerial oversight failures are not new to this record. They appear here, and they appear in earlier visits.
The restaurant has never been emergency-closed. After nine high-severity violations on June 29, 2026, it remained open for business.
