SAN ANTONIO, FL. State inspectors visited Al's Famous Pizza on Curley Street on April 21 and found food being served from unapproved or unknown sources, a violation that means there is no way to trace where that food came from if a customer gets sick.
That was one of nine high-severity violations documented in a single inspection. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The April 21 inspection produced 11 total violations, nine of them at the highest severity level the state assigns. The list covers nearly every category of food safety risk: sourcing, cooking, sanitation, chemical storage, allergen awareness, and employee illness policy.
Inspectors found that food was not being cooked to required minimum temperatures. That violation sits alongside a finding that food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized, meaning bacteria from raw ingredients could transfer directly onto food being served to customers.
Toxic chemicals were found improperly stored or labeled near food. That is a separate violation from the sanitation failures, meaning inspectors identified both biological and chemical contamination risks in the same visit.
The restaurant also had no demonstrated allergen awareness, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and inadequate shell stock identification records for shellfish. Shellfish served without proper tagging records cannot be traced to a licensed harvester if a customer becomes ill.
What These Violations Mean
Food from unapproved or unknown sources means the ingredients bypassed USDA and FDA inspection systems entirely. If a supplier is unlicensed, there is no chain of custody, no recall mechanism, and no way for health officials to identify the source of an outbreak after the fact. That violation, combined with food not cooked to minimum temperature, creates a compounded risk: uninspected ingredients that may carry Salmonella or Listeria, then not heated to the temperatures required to kill those pathogens.
The absence of an employee health policy means there is no formal requirement for sick workers to stay out of the kitchen. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness in the United States, spreads through exactly this route. A single infected food handler can contaminate surfaces, utensils, and food before any symptoms are obvious to a manager.
Improperly cleaned food contact surfaces allow bacterial biofilms to develop within hours. Biofilms are protective layers that make bacteria resistant to standard cleaning agents, meaning the problem compounds with each service that passes without proper sanitation. The intermediate violation for multi-use utensils not properly cleaned adds to that picture.
The chemical storage violation is distinct from all of the above. Improperly labeled or stored toxic chemicals near food areas create a risk of acute poisoning, not gradual bacterial illness. These are not overlapping risks, they are simultaneous ones documented in the same kitchen on the same afternoon.
The Longer Record
Al's Famous Pizza: Inspection History, 2023-2026
The April 2026 inspection was not an isolated event. State records show 34 inspections on file for Al's Famous Pizza, with 193 total violations accumulated across that history.
The December 2024 inspection produced 7 high-severity violations. The October 2025 inspection produced 3 more. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern across the inspection record shows high-severity violation counts spiking, dropping, then spiking again. The July 2025 inspection found zero high-priority violations. Three months later, in October, there were three. Six months after that, in April 2026, there were nine.
That oscillation, clean inspection followed by serious violations followed by another clean inspection, appears across multiple years in the record. March 2023 produced 5 high-severity violations. December 2023 produced 2. December 2024 produced 7. The facility has demonstrated it can pass inspections. It has also demonstrated, repeatedly, that the conditions documented on bad days are serious ones.
Al's Famous Pizza left its April 21 inspection with nine high-severity violations on record and its doors open for business.