ORLANDO, FL. Food from an unapproved or unknown source was on the premises at Bachata Breeze Restaurant on Curry Ford Road when state inspectors arrived on April 29, one of ten high-severity violations documented that day at the Orlando restaurant. The facility was not closed.
The inspection also turned up toxic chemicals stored improperly near food, employees who were not reporting illness symptoms, and food in poor or adulterated condition. Two intermediate violations, covering multi-use utensils not properly cleaned and single-use items being reused, rounded out a citation list that totaled 12 violations on a single visit.
What Inspectors Found
The person-in-charge violation is worth pausing on. Inspectors cited not just the absence of a manager on duty, but the failure to perform managerial oversight duties. That citation sat alongside two separate handwashing violations: one for inadequate handwashing frequency, another for improper technique. Both were documented on the same visit.
The food sourcing citation is among the most serious on the list. When food arrives from an unapproved or unknown source, it has bypassed USDA and FDA safety inspections entirely. If a customer becomes ill, investigators have no supply chain to trace.
Improperly stored toxic chemicals near food areas were also documented. That violation carries a risk of acute poisoning through direct contamination of food or food-contact surfaces, not a chronic or theoretical risk.
What These Violations Mean
The cluster of illness-related violations, covering the absence of a health policy, employees not reporting symptoms, and no designated person in charge enforcing either, describes a kitchen where a sick worker could prepare food for customers with no institutional check in place. Norovirus, which causes roughly 20 million illnesses in the United States annually, spreads most efficiently through exactly this pathway: an infected food handler who does not know they are required to report symptoms, working in a facility with no written policy requiring them to do so.
The two handwashing violations compound that risk directly. Improper technique means pathogens remain on hands even after a washing attempt is made. Combined with unsanitized food contact surfaces, the contamination pathway from a worker's hands to a customer's plate is essentially uninterrupted.
The food-in-poor-condition citation covers spoiled, contaminated, mislabeled, or adulterated product. That violation, alongside the unapproved food source citation, means inspectors found both the origin and the condition of some food on the premises to be in question on the same day.
The missing consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items is a narrower but serious gap. Elderly customers, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems rely on that disclosure to make informed decisions. Without it, they have no way to know the risk they are accepting.
The Longer Record
The April 29 inspection did not occur in isolation. Records show Bachata Breeze has logged 32 inspections and 515 total violations since it began accumulating a state inspection history. The day after the April 29 visit, a follow-up inspection on April 30 found 8 high-severity violations and 1 intermediate, meaning the high-severity count dropped by only two in a single day.
The pattern across the past two years is consistent. The November 2025 inspection found 3 high-severity violations. The October 2025 inspection found none. But the June 2025 visit found 4 high-severity violations and 3 intermediate ones. The December 2024 inspection found 5 high-severity and 4 intermediate. Two inspections in May 2024 found 6 high-severity violations and then 8 high-severity violations on consecutive visits five days apart.
The facility has never been emergency-closed.
What the record shows is a restaurant that clears inspections when it has to, then accumulates serious violations again. The October 2025 visit with zero high-severity citations came one month before a November visit with three. The April 29, 2026 inspection, with 10 high-severity violations, is the worst single-day total in the available history.
Still Open
State inspectors documented food from an unknown source, improperly stored chemicals, employees not reporting illness, no written health policy, two separate handwashing failures, unsanitized food contact surfaces, food in poor condition, and no manager performing oversight duties, all at the same facility on the same afternoon.
Bachata Breeze remained open for business.