NOKOMIS, FL. A state inspector walked into Eggstraordinary Lunch on Tamiami Trail on April 29 and found a restaurant with no written employee illness policy, improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, a sewage or wastewater disposal problem, and workers observed using improper handwashing technique. The facility collected six high-severity violations and three intermediate violations. It was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
Three of the six high-severity violations were directly tied to employee illness controls. The inspector cited the facility for having no employee health policy at all, for at least one employee failing to report illness symptoms, and for employees using improper handwashing technique.
That combination, all three present in the same inspection, is particularly significant. A restaurant with no written illness policy gives workers no formal guidance about when to stay home. When employees also fail to report symptoms and wash their hands incorrectly, the gaps compound each other.
The inspector also cited inadequate shell stock identification records, a violation that affects oysters, clams, and mussels served raw or lightly cooked. No person in charge was present or performing duties at the time of the inspection. Food contact surfaces had not been properly cleaned or sanitized.
On the intermediate tier, the inspector documented improper sewage or wastewater disposal, single-use items being reused, and inadequate ventilation and lighting.
What These Violations Mean
The three illness-related high-severity violations, taken together, describe a facility with no functioning barrier between a sick employee and a customer's plate. Without a written health policy, there is no standard for when a worker with Norovirus, Salmonella, or Hepatitis A is required to stay home. Norovirus alone accounts for roughly 20 million cases of foodborne illness in the United States each year, and direct transmission from food workers is a leading cause of those outbreaks.
Improper handwashing technique compounds that risk. A worker who attempts to wash their hands but does so incorrectly, skipping steps or cutting the process short, can transfer pathogens to food just as easily as a worker who skips handwashing entirely.
The shellfish traceability violation carries a different kind of risk. Shell stock identification records exist so that if customers become ill after eating oysters or clams, investigators can trace the product back to its harvest location. Without those records, an outbreak can spread further before the source is identified.
The intermediate sewage violation is not a paperwork issue. Improper wastewater disposal creates conditions for fecal contamination anywhere in the facility. Raw sewage contains pathogens including E. coli and Norovirus.
The Longer Record
This was not an unusual day at Eggstraordinary Lunch. The facility has 35 inspections on record and 327 total violations documented over its history.
The April 29 inspection is nearly identical in scope to what inspectors found exactly one year earlier. On May 20 and May 21, 2025, the restaurant was cited for seven high-severity and five intermediate violations, followed the next day by six high-severity and three intermediate violations. The April 29, 2026 inspection, six high and three intermediate, matches that pattern almost exactly.
Go back further and the record gets worse, not better. In March 2024, inspectors cited the facility for 11 high-severity violations and two intermediate violations in a single visit. One month later, in April 2024, another inspection produced seven high-severity and two intermediate violations.
The facility has never been emergency-closed in its inspection history. Despite the March 2024 visit that produced 11 high-severity violations, despite the repeated pattern of six or more high-severity citations in a single inspection, the restaurant has remained open after every visit on record.
Still Open
The violations documented on April 29 are not new categories for this restaurant. The illness policy failures, the handwashing problems, the food contact surface issues, these are the kinds of citations that appear repeatedly across years of inspection records at this address.
State inspectors returned to Eggstraordinary Lunch and found the same core problems they have documented before. The facility collected its ninth high-severity violation in the same categories it has been cited for since at least 2024.
It was not closed.