MIAMI, FL. An inspector visiting Eleventh Street Pizza at 9025 SW 72nd Place on October 5, 2026 found toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled near food, one of eight high-severity violations documented that day. The restaurant was not closed.
The inspection also turned up no demonstrated allergen awareness among staff, meaning employees could not reliably identify or communicate allergen information to customers with life-threatening food allergies. That violation alone, according to state health risk data, is tied to 30,000 emergency room visits annually nationwide.
What Inspectors Found
The full list of eight high-severity violations documented on October 5 covered nearly every layer of food safety. Inspectors cited improper handwashing technique, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, and time as a public health control not properly used.
There was also no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods, and no person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties at the time of the inspection.
Three intermediate violations rounded out the report: improper sewage or wastewater disposal, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and inadequate or improperly maintained toilet facilities.
What These Violations Mean
The employee illness reporting violation is among the most consequential on the list. Food workers who do not report symptoms of illness are the leading cause of multi-victim outbreaks. Norovirus, which spreads easily through food handled by symptomatic workers, can sicken dozens of customers from a single shift. At Eleventh Street Pizza, that violation existed alongside improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, meaning any pathogen introduced by a sick worker had additional surfaces to travel across.
The toxic chemical storage violation carries a different but equally acute risk. Chemicals stored near or improperly labeled around food can contaminate ingredients directly, and mislabeled containers have historically caused acute poisoning incidents in restaurant settings. Combined with the absence of allergen awareness, customers with serious food allergies had no reliable way to know what was in their food or whether staff could answer that question accurately.
The time-as-public-health-control violation is worth explaining plainly. When a restaurant uses time rather than temperature to keep food safe, it commits to discarding food after a set window. If that system is not properly documented and followed, food that has spent hours in the bacterial growth zone, between 41 and 135 degrees, stays in service. The absence of a person in charge performing supervisory duties helps explain how several of these violations could exist simultaneously in one facility.
The intermediate sewage violation adds a layer of concern that goes beyond food handling. Improper wastewater disposal creates the potential for fecal contamination to spread through a facility, and inadequate toilet facilities reduce the likelihood that employees use restrooms and wash hands properly, compounding the handwashing technique violation already cited at the high-severity level.
The Longer Record
Eleventh Street Pizza: Inspection History
October 5 was not an outlier. State records show 13 inspections on file for Eleventh Street Pizza, with 125 total violations accumulated across that history. The facility has never logged a clean inspection in the records available.
The restaurant was emergency-closed once before, on August 3, 2026, after inspectors documented fly activity along with six high-severity and four intermediate violations. It reopened the following day, August 4, but that follow-up inspection still found four high-severity violations. The pattern did not improve from there.
December 1, 2025 produced the worst single-day count in the available record: nine high-severity violations in one inspection. The next day's follow-up still found six. The October 5, 2026 inspection, with eight high-severity violations, ranks second in the facility's documented history.
The follow-up inspection conducted on October 6, 2026, the day after the inspection that is the subject of this report, found four high-severity and three intermediate violations still in place.
Eleventh Street Pizza was open for business throughout.
