MICANOPY, FL. State inspectors visited Cafe Risque on SE County Road 234 on June 16 and documented that food was not being cooked to required minimum temperatures, a violation that puts customers at direct risk of surviving pathogens like Salmonella in underprepared poultry.
The facility walked away with six high-severity violations and six intermediate violations. It was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The cooking temperature violation sits at the top of the list for a reason. Poultry must reach 165 degrees Fahrenheit to kill Salmonella. If that threshold is not met, the pathogen survives and reaches the plate.
Inspectors also found toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled near food areas. A mislabeled or misplaced chemical container in a working kitchen creates an acute poisoning risk, not a theoretical one.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. Cutting boards and prep surfaces that carry residue from previous use become direct transfer routes for bacteria to the next item prepared on them.
The handwashing violation is a different kind of failure. An employee who attempts to wash hands but uses improper technique, skipping steps or cutting time short, leaves pathogens on their hands. The attempt itself provides no protection if the technique is wrong.
Inspectors also cited the facility for failing to use time as a public health control properly. When temperature monitoring is not in use, time becomes the fallback method to track how long food sits in the danger zone between 41 and 135 degrees. Records of that timing were not being maintained as required.
Finally, no consumer advisory was posted for raw or undercooked food items. That advisory exists specifically to warn elderly customers, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems that certain items carry elevated risk.
What These Violations Mean
The cooking temperature and time-abuse violations are directly linked. When food is not cooked to the required minimum temperature, and when the time food spends in the danger zone is not properly tracked, the two failures compound each other. A customer eating at Cafe Risque on June 16 had no reliable assurance that their food had been cooked to a safe temperature or that it had not sat in bacterial growth conditions before being served.
The chemical storage violation adds a separate and unrelated danger. Improperly stored or unlabeled chemicals near food preparation areas can contaminate food through accidental contact or mislabeled application. This is not a background risk. It is a direct pathway to acute illness.
The sewage disposal violation documented as an intermediate finding carries its own serious weight. Improper sewage handling creates the possibility of fecal contamination spreading through the facility. Combined with improperly sanitized food contact surfaces and wiping cloths being used in ways that spread rather than clean contamination, the inspection picture is one of multiple simultaneous failure points.
The absence of a consumer advisory is the violation that removes the last line of defense. Even if a customer knew the kitchen was struggling, they had no posted warning that certain foods on the menu were served raw or undercooked.
The Longer Record
The June 16 inspection is not an outlier in Cafe Risque's history. State records show 28 inspections on file and 251 total violations accumulated across that history.
The pattern of serious violations is consistent. In March 2025, inspectors documented six high-severity and five intermediate violations. In September 2024, the tally was identical: six high and five intermediate. In December 2025, a follow-up inspection showed five high and four intermediate violations just four days after a clean inspection on December 15.
That December sequence is worth noting. A zero-violation inspection on December 15 was followed by five high-severity violations on December 11. The inspection history is listed most recent first, meaning the facility passed a check and then, on a prior visit just days earlier, had accumulated a serious violation count. The facility has never been emergency-closed across all 28 inspections on record.
The June 2026 inspection matches the worst single-visit totals in the facility's recorded history, tying the six-high-severity counts from March 2025 and September 2024. Across at least four separate inspection dates spanning nearly two years, the facility has been cited for six high-severity violations in a single visit.
Still Open
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation did not issue an emergency closure order after the June 16 inspection. The facility, which accumulated six high-severity violations including undercooking, chemical mishandling, and failed handwashing technique, continued operating.
State records show 251 violations across 28 inspections and no emergency closures in the facility's history.
Cafe Risque remained open.