BROWARD COUNTY, FL. A Pompano Beach pizza restaurant and a Lauderdale Lakes noodle house each accumulated 9 high-severity violations during the week of June 24, 2026, leading a county inspection scorecard that found 12 facilities with two or more critical citations across 114 inspections at 110 locations.
The Worst of the Week
1804 Pizza at 427 S Federal Hwy in Pompano Beach drew 9 high-severity citations, touching nearly every layer of food safety management. Inspectors cited the restaurant for no person in charge present or performing duties, no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness symptoms, inadequate handwashing, improper handwashing technique, food from an unapproved source, food not cooked to the required minimum temperature, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items.
That combination, a missing manager, sick workers with no protocol to stay home, and food from an unverified source arriving at a kitchen where hands aren't being washed and temperatures aren't being hit, represents a cascading failure across every control point inspectors check.
Noodle House Restaurant at 4461 N SR 7 in Lauderdale Lakes matched that count with 9 high-severity violations and zero intermediate citations, meaning every violation inspectors documented was serious. The list included no person in charge, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper handwashing technique, food from an unapproved source, inadequate shell stock identification records, failure to follow parasite destruction procedures, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
The parasite destruction citation is notable. Restaurants serving raw or lightly cooked fish are required to freeze product at specific temperatures for specific durations to kill parasites including Anisakis and tapeworm. No records of that process were documented.
Mi Fondita Cafeteria Restaurant Inc at 6059 Johnson in Hollywood drew 8 high-severity violations, including food from an unapproved source, food not cooked to required temperature, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, no employee health policy, and inadequate handwashing at multiple levels. Inspectors also cited the facility for no consumer advisory on raw or undercooked items.
Chicken Salad Chick at 2908 N University Dr in Coral Springs accumulated 7 high-severity violations plus 3 intermediate ones. Among the high-severity citations: toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, food not cooked to required temperature, inadequate shell stock identification records, employees not reporting illness, no person in charge, and inadequate handwashing. The intermediate violations included improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
Toxic chemicals stored near or improperly labeled around food is among the more acute hazards inspectors document. Mislabeled cleaning compounds have caused poisoning incidents when they were mistaken for food-safe liquids.
Malbec Grill at 7351 SR 7 in Parkland drew 7 high-severity violations, including food in poor condition, mislabeled or adulterated; inadequate shell stock identification records; food contact surfaces not properly cleaned; no consumer advisory; required procedures for specialized processes not followed; and both inadequate handwashing facilities and improper technique. The specialized process citation suggests the kitchen is operating a smoking, curing, fermenting, or reduced-oxygen packaging procedure without the documented controls those methods require.
Freda's Dominican Cuisine at 6868 Powerline Rd in Fort Lauderdale was cited for 7 high-severity violations, including food from an unapproved source, food in poor condition, inadequate shell stock identification, food not cooked to required temperature, improper handwashing technique, no consumer advisory, and no allergen awareness demonstrated. The allergen citation means inspectors found no evidence that staff could identify or communicate which menu items contain the major food allergens, a gap that has contributed to fatal reactions nationally.
Nagoya Sushi at 7250 W McNab Rd in North Lauderdale drew 6 high-severity violations, including no person in charge, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing, improper technique, food in poor condition, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized. At a sushi restaurant, where raw fish is handled and served without a kill step, the combination of handwashing failures and unsanitized food contact surfaces is a direct contamination pathway.
Al's Table Corp at 181 S State Rd 7 in Margate was cited for 6 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate ones. The high-severity list included no person in charge, employees not reporting illness, food from an unapproved source, food in poor condition, improper handwashing technique, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned. The intermediate violations included improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
Dediez Cafe at 8763 Stirling Rd in Cooper City drew 5 high-severity violations, including food from an unapproved source, food in poor condition, food not cooked to required temperature, employees not reporting illness, and improper handwashing technique.
La Mexicana Taco Bar at 2430 NE 13 Ave in Wilton Manors was cited for 5 high-severity violations, including no person in charge, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing facilities, food from an unapproved source, and no consumer advisory. Don Pan Oakland Park at 10020 W Oakland Park Blvd in Sunrise drew the same count, with citations for employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper technique, food from an unapproved source, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned.
Blue Moon Fish Company at 4405 W Tradewinds Ave in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea drew a single high-severity violation, for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized.
What These Violations Mean
The most common high-severity pattern this week was the cluster of handwashing failures: inadequate facilities, inadequate practice, and improper technique cited together at Noodle House, Mi Fondita, Malbec Grill, Nagoya Sushi, and Don Pan, among others. These are not redundant violations. Inadequate facilities means there is no functional place to wash hands. Inadequate practice means employees aren't doing it. Improper technique means that even when they try, the method leaves pathogens behind. All three can exist simultaneously, and inspectors documented exactly that at multiple locations this week.
Food from unapproved sources showed up at seven of the twelve flagged facilities: 1804 Pizza, Noodle House, Mi Fondita, Freda's Dominican Cuisine, Al's Table, Dediez Cafe, La Mexicana Taco Bar, and Don Pan. The problem isn't just regulatory paperwork. When food enters a kitchen from an uninspected supplier, there is no traceability if a customer gets sick. Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli outbreaks have been traced back to exactly this gap, because investigators couldn't identify the source fast enough to pull product.
The employee illness reporting failures, cited at nine of the twelve facilities, are an outbreak mechanism. Norovirus, the leading cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States, spreads primarily through infected food workers who don't know they're required to report symptoms and stay home. A written health policy is the first line of defense. Nine facilities this week either had no policy or an inadequate one.
The shell stock identification citations at Noodle House, Chicken Salad Chick, Malbec Grill, and Freda's Dominican Cuisine mean that shellfish, oysters, clams, or mussels, were on hand with no verifiable origin tags. Shellfish are consumed raw or lightly cooked and are a primary vehicle for Vibrio and hepatitis A. Without tags, there is no way to trace a contaminated batch back to its harvest bed.
The Longer Record
The data does not include prior inspection counts for the facilities featured this week, which limits the ability to place these findings in a cumulative context. What the violation lists themselves show is that several of these kitchens have systemic gaps rather than isolated slip-ups. A facility cited for no person in charge, no employee health policy, no illness reporting, inadequate handwashing infrastructure, improper technique, and food from an unapproved source, as 1804 Pizza was, is not describing a single bad day. Each of those violations reflects a separate failure of training, policy, or equipment.
Noodle House's combination of unapproved food sourcing, missing shell stock records, and no parasite destruction documentation suggests a kitchen handling high-risk raw seafood without the controls that raw seafood specifically requires. Those are not beginner errors. They are the kind of violations that accumulate when a kitchen has been operating outside documented food safety protocols for an extended period.
Freda's Dominican Cuisine on Powerline Road was the only facility this week cited for no allergen awareness, a violation that requires inspectors to find no demonstrable staff knowledge of the major allergens present in menu items. That citation sits alongside food from an unapproved source and food not cooked to required temperature, a combination that spans sourcing, cooking, and service, three distinct points in the food handling chain.
