KISSIMMEE, FL. A state inspector walked into 787 Sport Bar and Grill Restaurant Inc. on East Vine Street on September 1, 2026, and found that food was not being cooked to the required minimum temperature, that some of that food came from unapproved or unknown sources, and that the restaurant was still serving customers when the visit ended.
Six of the nine violations documented that day were classified as high severity. The facility was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The undercooking violation is the most direct threat to anyone who ate there. Poultry must reach 165 degrees Fahrenheit to kill Salmonella, and food that falls short of that threshold can transmit illness with a single serving.
The food sourcing violation compounds that risk in a specific way. When food arrives from an unapproved or unknown supplier, it has bypassed USDA and FDA inspection checkpoints entirely. If a customer becomes ill, investigators have no supply chain to trace. The origin of the food, and whatever contamination it may have carried, is simply unknown.
Inspectors also cited improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, which are a direct transfer route for bacteria between raw and ready-to-eat food. Combined with the handwashing technique violation, which means employees may have carried pathogens on their hands even after attempting to wash them, the inspection describes a kitchen where multiple contamination pathways were active at the same time.
Toxic chemicals stored or labeled improperly add a separate category of risk. Chemicals placed near food or mislabeled can cause acute poisoning that has nothing to do with bacteria or temperature.
What These Violations Mean
Undercooking is consistently one of the leading causes of foodborne illness outbreaks investigated by state and federal health agencies. The danger is not theoretical. Salmonella in poultry, E. coli in ground beef, and Listeria in certain processed meats all survive at temperatures below their required kill thresholds. A restaurant that serves food without reaching those temperatures is serving food that may still be actively dangerous.
The unapproved food source violation at 787 Sport Bar means that some portion of what was being prepared on September 1 came from a supplier the state has not vetted. Florida's approved-source rules exist precisely because traceability is the first tool investigators use when customers get sick. Without it, a foodborne illness cluster becomes much harder to contain and much harder to attribute.
The combination of improperly cleaned food contact surfaces and reused single-use items creates conditions for bacterial biofilm, a protective layer that bacteria form on surfaces within 24 hours and that standard wiping does not remove. The intermediate violation for multi-use utensils not properly cleaned fits the same pattern.
Inadequate ventilation, the third intermediate violation, is not just a comfort issue. Grease-laden vapors that accumulate without proper exhaust create fire risk and can allow carbon monoxide to build up in enclosed kitchen spaces.
The Longer Record
September 1 was not a bad day at an otherwise clean restaurant. The state's inspection record for 787 Sport Bar and Grill spans 29 inspections and 247 total violations.
The pattern in recent years shows high-severity violations at nearly every visit. Inspectors found eight high-severity violations in November 2025, seven in August 2024, six in April 2024, and five in April 2025. The September 1 tally of six fits squarely in the middle of that range.
The facility was emergency-closed once before, on February 6, 2024, after inspectors documented roach activity. It took two follow-up inspections, on February 7 and February 8, before the restaurant was cleared to reopen. The February 8 inspection showed zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations, the only clean inspection in the recent record. Every subsequent visit has returned violations in the high-severity category.
The day after the September 1 inspection, on September 2, 2026, inspectors returned and found three additional high-severity violations and one intermediate violation.
Open for Business
State inspectors documented six high-severity violations at 787 Sport Bar and Grill on September 1, 2026, including food cooked to insufficient temperatures and food sourced from suppliers the state has not approved. The restaurant was not emergency-closed. It remained open to customers that night.
