LAUDERHILL, FL. Shellfish was being served at a Lauderhill sports bar without the identification records that would allow health officials to trace an outbreak back to its source, state inspectors found on April 28, and that was not even the only critical failure documented that day.
CC Fortunes Sports Bar and Grill on NW 31st Avenue drew seven high-severity violations and three intermediate violations during the April 28 inspection. The facility was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The shellfish violation was among the most acute. State records show the bar lacked adequate shell stock identification and records, meaning oysters, clams, or mussels on the menu could not be traced to their origin if a customer became ill.
Inspectors also cited the bar for failing to follow parasite destruction procedures. That violation applies to fish, pork, and wild game served raw or undercooked, foods where improper freezing or cooking can leave parasites like Anisakis or Trichinella alive at the point of consumption.
No consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods was posted, meaning customers had no written warning that items on the menu carried elevated risk.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. Cutting boards, prep tables, and similar surfaces that touch food directly were flagged, a condition inspectors associate with bacterial transfer between raw and ready-to-eat items.
The handwashing picture was layered. Inspectors cited both inadequate handwashing facilities and improper hand and arm washing technique, meaning employees lacked the infrastructure for proper hygiene and were not performing it correctly where facilities did exist. No person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties.
On the intermediate side, inspectors documented improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils that had not been properly cleaned, and inadequate or improperly maintained toilet facilities.
What These Violations Mean
The shellfish traceability failure carries a specific public health consequence. When a customer gets sick from contaminated oysters or clams, investigators trace the illness back to the harvest source using the tag records that travel with each shipment. Without those records, a foodborne illness cluster tied to CC Fortunes could not be linked to a contaminated harvest lot, and other restaurants receiving shellfish from the same source would not be warned.
The parasite destruction failure compounds the raw food risk. Proper commercial freezing at specific temperatures for defined periods kills parasites in fish and pork before they reach a customer. Skipping that step and serving the food raw or lightly cooked means any parasites present survive.
The handwashing failures are connected to each other and to everything else. Inadequate facilities make compliance physically impossible. Improper technique means that even when employees do wash, pathogens remain on their hands. Both violations on the same inspection, at a facility also missing a person in charge, describe a kitchen with no functioning hygiene system at the moment inspectors walked in.
Improperly cleaned multi-use utensils develop bacterial biofilms within 24 hours, layers of bacteria that standard washing does not remove once established. The sewage violation adds fecal contamination risk to a facility already documented as lacking functional handwashing and toilet infrastructure.
The Longer Record
The April 28 inspection was not an anomaly. State records show CC Fortunes has been inspected 16 times and has accumulated 70 total violations across that history.
The pattern of high-severity findings is consistent across the most recent inspections. The December 4, 2025 visit produced six high-severity and two intermediate violations. The December 8, 2025 follow-up still showed three high and two intermediate. The January 12, 2026 inspection found two high violations. The April 28 count of seven high-severity violations is the worst single-day total in the recent record.
The facility has never been emergency-closed across all 16 inspections on record. The one inspection that produced zero violations, in October 2024, sits surrounded on both sides by visits that found multiple high-severity problems.
Open for Business
Seven high-severity violations, shellfish with no traceable origin, fish or meat served without parasite destruction procedures, no handwashing infrastructure, no person in charge, sewage disposal problems, and a kitchen where food contact surfaces were not properly sanitized. State inspectors documented all of it on April 28, 2026.
CC Fortunes Sports Bar and Grill remained open.