DAYTONA BEACH, FL. A state inspector walked into Bunnboh Churros at 1100 Cornerstone Blvd on September 1 and found six high-severity violations, including food sourced from an unapproved or unknown supplier and employees neither trained nor required to report symptoms of illness. The shop was not closed.
Not a single intermediate violation appeared on the report. Every citation the inspector wrote that day was high-severity.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation is among the most serious an inspector can document. State records show the facility was cited for obtaining food from an unapproved or unknown source, meaning at least some of what was being served to customers that day had not passed through USDA or FDA oversight.
The inspector also cited the facility for food in poor condition, described in state records as spoiled, contaminated, mislabeled, or adulterated.
On the employee side, the picture was equally stark. The inspector found no adequate written health policy requiring workers to report illness symptoms, and separately documented that at least one employee was not, in fact, reporting such symptoms. Those are two distinct violations, not one.
Two additional handwashing citations rounded out the six. The inspector cited both inadequate handwashing by food employees and improper hand and arm washing technique, meaning the problem was not just that workers skipped the sink but that even when they attempted to wash, the method was wrong.
What These Violations Mean
The food sourcing violation carries consequences that extend beyond a single meal. When food enters a kitchen from an unapproved supplier, there is no chain of documentation. If a customer gets sick, investigators have nowhere to trace the ingredient back to. Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli have all been linked to uninspected food sources in Florida outbreak investigations.
The illness reporting failures at Bunnboh Churros represent a direct transmission risk. Norovirus, the pathogen most commonly spread by sick food workers, can be transmitted by a single infected employee handling food for dozens of customers in a single shift. A written health policy exists precisely to create a barrier between a symptomatic worker and the food line. The inspector found neither the policy nor compliance with the underlying obligation.
The two handwashing violations together close off the most basic safeguard in a food preparation environment. Inadequate handwashing means workers are not washing at all, or not washing at required intervals. Improper technique means that even the washing that does occur is not removing pathogens. Studies have shown that incorrect handwashing, such as skipping scrubbing time or missing the backs of hands, leaves contamination levels nearly as high as no washing at all.
Food in poor condition cited at the same facility compounds every other violation. If the sourcing is unknown and the food itself is in poor condition, there is no point in the process where a safety check caught the problem.
The Longer Record
Bunnboh Churros Inspection History
This is not Bunnboh Churros's first inspection with serious findings. State records show the facility has been inspected four times and has accumulated 26 total violations across those visits, with no emergency closures on record.
The pattern is not improving. The September 2023 inspection produced three high-severity violations and one intermediate. The follow-up one week later, on September 26, 2023, produced two more high-severity citations. The August 2025 inspection produced five. The September 2026 inspection produced six.
Each inspection in the facility's history has included high-severity violations. The count has risen with each of the last two inspections on record.
The facility has never been emergency-closed.
Still Open
Florida's inspection system allows facilities to remain open after high-severity violations if inspectors determine the findings do not pose an immediate, acute threat requiring emergency closure. The threshold for an emergency closure is a specific regulatory determination, not simply a count of serious violations.
Bunnboh Churros met that threshold on September 1. Six high-severity violations, including food of unknown origin and employees neither trained nor required to report illness, were not enough to trigger a closure order.
The shop at 1100 Cornerstone Blvd remained open.
