DAYTONA BEACH, FL. A Port Orange cheesesteak restaurant was cited for having no approved potable water supply, food from unapproved sources, and improperly stored toxic chemicals, all in the same inspection week, part of a wave of high-severity violations documented at five Volusia County restaurants between June 16 and June 22, 2026.
The findings span three cities, Port Orange, Ormond Beach, and Daytona Beach, and hit restaurants that collectively serve thousands of summer tourists along one of Florida's busiest coastal corridors.
The Lead Offender
Original Famous Philly's at 5251 S. Nova Road drew seven high-severity violations and three intermediate citations, the highest total of any facility inspected in the area that week. The inspector documented no approved potable water supply, food from an unapproved or unknown source, and toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, three violations that, taken together, describe a facility where the water, the food, and the cleaning products all carry independent contamination risk.
The same inspection also found food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, improper hand and arm washing technique, no employee health policy, and inadequate shell stock identification records. The shell stock citation means the restaurant could not document the origin of its shellfish, a requirement that exists specifically so health officials can trace an outbreak back to a harvest bed if customers get sick.
Improper sewage or waste water disposal rounded out the intermediate violations. That citation at a facility already flagged for non-potable water compounds the contamination picture considerably.
Along the Coast and Off Dunlawton
U Sushi & Hibachi at 1280 Ocean Shore Boulevard in Ormond Beach, a beachside address that puts it squarely in tourist territory, accumulated five high-severity violations with no intermediate citations. Inspectors found both inadequate handwashing by food employees and improper handwashing technique, meaning workers were not washing hands at all in some instances and were washing incorrectly in others.
The restaurant also lacked a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. For a sushi and hibachi operation where raw fish is central to the menu, that omission leaves customers with no way to make an informed choice about what they are eating.
Required procedures for specialized processes were also found not to be followed. At a sushi restaurant, that category covers practices like raw fish handling, reduced-oxygen packaging, and temperature controls for items meant to be served raw, and the absence of documented procedures is a foundational failure.
Filo Greek at 1665 Dunlawton Avenue in Port Orange drew four high-severity violations, including food from an unapproved or unknown source, a citation it shares with Original Famous Philly's. The restaurant was also cited for an employee not reporting symptoms of illness, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. An intermediate citation for inadequate cooling or cold holding equipment accompanied the high-severity findings, meaning the facility lacked the equipment capacity to keep food at safe temperatures even if staff followed proper procedures.
Chain Restaurants Were Not Exempt
Texas Roadhouse at 5549 S. Williamson Boulevard in Port Orange, a high-volume chain location near the Interstate 95 corridor, was cited for two high-severity violations. One was an employee not reporting symptoms of illness. The other was time as a public health control not properly used, a citation that applies when a restaurant uses elapsed time, rather than refrigeration, to determine when food must be discarded, and fails to document or follow that system correctly.
Three intermediate violations accompanied those findings: improper sewage or waste water disposal, inadequate cooling or cold holding equipment, and equipment in poor repair or condition. The combination of temperature control failures at both the equipment and procedural level at a single inspection is notable.
Hooters at 2100 International Speedway Boulevard in Daytona Beach, located less than a mile from Daytona International Speedway, drew two high-severity violations. The first was person in charge not present or not performing duties. The second was toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, the same chemical storage citation found at Original Famous Philly's that week. An intermediate violation for single-use items improperly reused was also documented.
What These Violations Mean
The no-potable-water citation at Original Famous Philly's is among the most serious a food establishment can receive. Non-potable water used in food preparation or handwashing can carry E. coli, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Legionella. Every surface washed, every pot filled, every handwashing sink used with that water becomes a potential contamination point. The fact that the same inspection also found improper handwashing technique means that even the corrective action, washing hands, was being done wrong.
Food from unapproved sources, cited at both Original Famous Philly's and Filo Greek, cuts off the traceability chain that health officials depend on when an outbreak occurs. If a customer gets sick from a product that entered the kitchen without a documented supplier, investigators cannot identify where the contamination started or how many other customers may have been exposed. During summer tourist season, when visitors eat one or two meals at a location and then leave the state, that traceability gap becomes harder to close.
The employee illness reporting failures at Filo Greek and Texas Roadhouse describe a different but equally direct risk. Norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants, spreads through food workers who are symptomatic but continue working. A single infected employee preparing food for a high-volume summer weekend can expose dozens of customers before any symptoms are reported. The absence of a reporting system, or the failure to use one, removes the only early warning mechanism available.
At U Sushi & Hibachi, the missing consumer advisory for raw fish is not a paperwork issue. Pregnant women, elderly customers, and people with compromised immune systems face substantially higher risk from raw seafood. Without the advisory posted, those customers have no way to know they are making a high-risk choice.
The Longer Record
The data does not include prior inspection counts for these facilities, which limits the ability to say definitively whether this week's findings represent a sudden decline or a documented pattern. What the record does show is that five separate facilities across three cities generated high-severity violations in the same seven-day window, and that two of those facilities, Original Famous Philly's and Filo Greek, share the same food sourcing violation, suggesting the unapproved supplier issue is not isolated to a single kitchen.
The concentration of handwashing violations across multiple facilities is also a pattern worth noting. Original Famous Philly's, U Sushi & Hibachi, and Filo Greek were all cited for handwashing failures in some form, whether inadequate technique, failure to wash at all, or absence of a health policy that would require it. Three separate inspectors at three separate addresses documented the same category of failure in the same week.
The Hooters on International Speedway Boulevard was cited for no person in charge present or performing duties. CDC data links that finding directly to higher critical violation rates, because active managerial oversight is what catches the other failures before an inspector does. At a location that draws event crowds from the speedway throughout the summer, that management gap remained on the record as of the June 22 inspection window.