BROWARD COUNTY, FL. A Margate restaurant accumulated 12 high-severity violations in a single inspection week, the highest single-facility count among 170 establishments inspected across Broward County between September 19 and September 25, 2026.
State inspectors documented 182 inspections during that stretch, with 12 facilities recording two or more high-severity violations. The problems ranged from food sourced from suppliers that bypass federal safety inspections to employees working without any mechanism to report illness symptoms to management.
The Worst of the Week
Delicias de la Abuela at 7270 W Atlantic Blvd in Margate drew 12 high-severity and 5 intermediate violations. Inspectors cited the restaurant for having no person in charge present or performing duties, no employee health policy, employees failing to report illness symptoms, inadequate handwashing, improper handwashing technique, food from unapproved or unknown sources, food in poor condition or adulterated, and inadequate shell stock identification records.
That is a facility where nearly every layer of food safety management collapsed simultaneously. No supervisory oversight. No illness reporting structure. No traceable sourcing for shellfish.
Orale Mexican Restaurant at 2041 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood recorded 9 high-severity violations. Inspectors found no person in charge, no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness symptoms, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper handwashing technique, food contaminated by chemical or biological hazards, missing shellfish traceability records, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled.
Weston Hills Country Club at 2600 Country Club Way in Weston logged 8 high-severity violations despite zero intermediate citations. The list included no person in charge, no employee health policy, improper handwashing technique, failure to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish or pork, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, improper use of time as a public health control, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and failure to follow required procedures for specialized processes such as smoking, curing, or reduced-oxygen packaging.
South China Restaurant at 5550 Flamingo Rd in Cooper City also drew 8 high-severity violations. Inspectors cited the restaurant for no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing by employees, inadequate handwashing facilities, improper handwashing technique, food from unapproved sources, missing shellfish traceability records, and improperly cleaned food contact surfaces. Three intermediate violations accompanied those findings.
Wings & More at 2525 W Davie Blvd in Fort Lauderdale matched that count with 8 high-severity violations: employees not reporting illness, inadequate handwashing, improper handwashing technique, missing shellfish traceability, failure to follow parasite destruction procedures, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items, and toxic chemicals improperly stored.
IHOP at 6101 N University Dr in Tamarac recorded 7 high-severity violations. Inspectors found employees not reporting illness symptoms, inadequate handwashing facilities, food contaminated by chemical or biological hazards, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, improper use of time as a public health control, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and toxic substances improperly identified or stored.
Veranda Kitchen & Bar at 2864 N University Dr in Coral Springs drew 7 high-severity violations, including one that the others did not share: food not cooked to the required minimum temperature. Inspectors also cited employees not reporting illness, improper handwashing technique, food from unapproved sources, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, improper use of time as a public health control, and no consumer advisory.
Harmony Indian Cuisine at 1142 N University Dr in Coral Springs recorded 7 high-severity violations and was the only facility this week cited for no allergen awareness demonstrated. That citation came alongside no employee health policy, employees not reporting illness, improper handwashing technique, food from unapproved sources, missing shellfish traceability, and no consumer advisory.
Chow Time Grill and Buffet at 6997 W Commercial Blvd in Tamarac drew 4 high-severity violations including toxic chemicals improperly stored near food and improperly cleaned food contact surfaces. Five intermediate violations accompanied those findings, among them improper sewage or wastewater disposal and single-use items being reused.
DiSalvo's Pizza at 4190 N 46 Ave in Hollywood recorded 7 high-severity violations including improper sewage or wastewater disposal flagged at the intermediate level, alongside toxic substances improperly stored, time as a public health control not properly used, and improperly cleaned food contact surfaces.
Ackee Tree Jamaican Restaurant at 2121 W Oakland Park Blvd in Oakland Park drew 2 high-severity violations: no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods and toxic substances improperly identified or stored.
Cafe on the Green at 1001 Wynmoor Cir in Coconut Creek recorded a single high-severity violation: no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods.
What These Violations Mean
The most common high-severity violation across this week's worst performers was employees not reporting illness symptoms, cited at Delicias de la Abuela, Orale Mexican Restaurant, South China Restaurant, Wings & More, IHOP, Veranda Kitchen & Bar, Harmony Indian Cuisine, Chow Time Grill and Buffet, and DiSalvo's Pizza. Food workers who do not report illness symptoms are the primary driver of multi-victim outbreaks. Norovirus, which causes roughly 20 million infections annually in the United States, spreads directly from infected food handlers to customers through food preparation contact.
The food-from-unapproved-sources violation, documented at Delicias de la Abuela, South China Restaurant, Veranda Kitchen & Bar, and Harmony Indian Cuisine, means those facilities received food that bypassed USDA or FDA inspection. If a customer becomes ill after eating at one of those restaurants, investigators have no supply chain documentation to trace the contamination back to its origin.
Shellfish traceability failures appeared at Delicias de la Abuela, Orale Mexican Restaurant, South China Restaurant, Wings & More, and Harmony Indian Cuisine. Oysters, clams, and mussels are typically consumed raw or lightly cooked, which means any contamination present at harvest survives to the plate. Without proper shellstock identification tags, a restaurant cannot tell health investigators where its shellfish came from, or when, if an illness cluster is reported.
The management-failure violation, no person in charge present or performing duties, was cited at Delicias de la Abuela, Orale Mexican Restaurant, and Weston Hills Country Club. CDC data shows that facilities without active managerial control accumulate critical violations at three times the rate of those with engaged supervision. The clustering of handwashing failures, illness-reporting failures, and sourcing failures at those same three locations is consistent with that pattern.
The Longer Record
The data provided does not include prior inspection counts for the facilities named this week, which limits direct comparison of their cumulative histories. What the current record does show is that several of these facilities are carrying violation profiles associated with systemic, not incidental, failures. Delicias de la Abuela's 12 high-severity citations in a single week, spanning management absence, illness policy, handwashing infrastructure, handwashing technique, food sourcing, and shellfish traceability, represent failures at every tier of food safety practice simultaneously.
Weston Hills Country Club presents a different profile. Eight high-severity violations at a private country club, including failures in specialized food processes such as smoking, curing, or reduced-oxygen packaging, and parasite destruction procedures for fish, suggest a kitchen operating more complex food preparation methods than its compliance record can currently support.
The two Coral Springs restaurants cited this week, Veranda Kitchen & Bar and Harmony Indian Cuisine, are located less than two miles apart on North University Drive. Both drew 7 high-severity violations. Veranda was cited for food not reaching required minimum cooking temperatures. Harmony was the only facility this week cited for no allergen awareness, a violation that affects the roughly 32 million Americans living with food allergies.
DiSalvo's Pizza in Hollywood drew an intermediate citation for improper sewage or wastewater disposal alongside 7 high-severity violations. Chow Time Grill and Buffet in Tamarac drew the same intermediate sewage citation. Improper sewage disposal creates fecal contamination risk throughout a facility, and both restaurants also carried food contact surface sanitation failures in the same inspection week.
