MARGATE, FL. Inspectors visiting Al's Table Corp at 181 S State Road 7 on June 26, 2026, found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers inside a restaurant where employees were not reporting illness symptoms and food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. The restaurant was not closed.
State records show the inspection turned up six high-severity violations and two intermediate violations in a single visit. Six high-severity findings at once is a significant total. The facility remained open to customers after inspectors left.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation is among the most serious in the inspection record. Food from unapproved or unknown suppliers has not passed USDA or FDA inspection, meaning there is no verified safety chain from origin to kitchen. If a customer were to become sick, investigators would have no traceable supply record to follow.
Inspectors also cited employees for not reporting illness symptoms. They found improper handwashing technique, meaning employees were going through the motion of washing their hands without executing it correctly. They documented food in poor condition, mislabeled, or adulterated. And they found food contact surfaces, the cutting boards, prep tables, and equipment that touches ingredients directly, were not properly cleaned or sanitized.
No person in charge was present or performing managerial duties at the time of the inspection.
The two intermediate violations added to the picture: sewage or wastewater was not being disposed of properly, and multi-use utensils had not been adequately cleaned between uses.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of unreported employee illness and improper handwashing technique is particularly dangerous because the two violations reinforce each other. An employee who is sick but does not report it continues working. If that employee also washes their hands incorrectly, pathogens from an active infection move directly onto food and surfaces. Norovirus, which spreads through exactly this route, can sicken dozens of people from a single food handler.
Food from unapproved sources means there is no paper trail. Regulatory traceability exists precisely so that when a contamination event occurs, health officials can identify the source, pull the product, and warn other facilities. Without it, an outbreak at Al's Table Corp could not be traced back to a specific supplier or lot.
Improperly cleaned food contact surfaces create what food scientists call cross-contamination pathways. Raw proteins leave bacterial residue on cutting boards and prep surfaces. If those surfaces are not sanitized between uses, the bacteria transfer to the next item prepared on them, whether that item is cooked or served raw.
Improper sewage disposal introduces fecal contamination risk throughout the facility. That violation, combined with multi-use utensils that have not been properly cleaned, compounds every other risk already present.
The Longer Record
Al's Table Corp: Inspection History
This is not the worst inspection Al's Table Corp has had. In October 2025, inspectors documented 10 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate violations in a single visit, a higher combined total than the June 2026 inspection. The facility has 29 inspections on record and 167 total violations accumulated across those visits.
The pattern across those 29 inspections is one of sharp swings. A clean inspection in November 2025, with zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations, was followed seven months later by the current six-high-severity visit. A similar swing occurred in 2021 and 2022: a clean visit in November 2021 was followed by a seven-high-severity inspection in April 2022.
Al's Table Corp has never been emergency-closed. Not after the 10-violation inspection in October 2025. Not after the seven-violation inspection in April 2022. Not after the six-violation inspection on June 26, 2026.
The restaurant was open for business when inspectors left.
