FORT MYERS, FL. XiXi Hibachi and Sushi on Gladiolus Drive drew 10 high-severity violations during the week of August 8, 2026, the highest single-facility count among 15 Fort Myers restaurants cited for serious food safety problems. Inspectors documented failures that included no parasite destruction procedures for raw fish, no consumer advisory for undercooked items, and no written employee health policy, all at a restaurant that serves raw and lightly prepared seafood to customers who have no way of knowing the fish was never properly treated.
XiXi also had inadequate shellfish traceability records and an employee cited for not reporting illness symptoms. The restaurant has only three prior inspections on record, meaning this week's findings represent a significant portion of its entire documented history.
What Inspectors Found
Tung Hing Chinese Restaurant on Fowler Street followed with eight high-severity violations, a count that included food not cooked to the required minimum temperature, food in poor condition, and toxic substances improperly stored. Inspectors also cited the restaurant for improper handwashing technique and no allergen awareness, a pairing that creates two separate but direct pathways to customer harm.
Snappers Comedy Club on College Parkway drew seven high-severity violations, including inadequate handwashing facilities, no parasite destruction procedures, and inadequate shellfish traceability records. Inspectors also flagged improper sewage or wastewater disposal, an intermediate violation that points to structural problems beyond food handling alone.
Cafe In on Cleveland Avenue also recorded seven high-severity violations. Among them: no person in charge present, food from an unapproved or unknown source, and no allergen awareness. The unapproved food source citation is among the most serious of the week, because it means inspectors could not determine where the food came from or whether it had passed any federal safety inspection.
Le Goute on Fowler Street was cited for six high-severity violations, including no person in charge, employees not reporting illness symptoms, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized. The restaurant's cooling equipment was also flagged as inadequate, meaning it cannot reliably hold food at safe temperatures even when other procedures are followed correctly.
Clase Azul of Estero on Gulf Coast Main Street drew five high-severity violations, including toxic substances improperly identified or stored, no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, and no person in charge. Inspectors also found improper sewage disposal and single-use items being reused, a combination that suggests systemic rather than isolated lapses.
China Dragon on Shoppes at Plantation Drive recorded five high-severity violations: no person in charge, an employee not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, unsanitized food contact surfaces, and no allergen awareness. Every one of those five violations involves a direct pathway from a worker's hands or behavior to a customer's plate.
Tsaocaa and Hibachi on South Tamiami Trail had five high-severity violations, including toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, no consumer advisory, and unsanitized food contact surfaces. The chemical storage citation places cleaning agents or other toxic substances in proximity to food preparation without proper labeling or separation.
Wicked Good Deli on Metro Parkway drew four high-severity violations, including parasite destruction procedures not followed and no allergen awareness. The deli also had inadequate cooling equipment and improper use of wiping cloths, the kind of intermediate violations that compound the risk created by the high-severity findings.
Chef Roland's Delight on Beacon Boulevard and Sai Gon Baguette on South Cleveland Avenue each drew four high-severity violations. Both were cited for food from unapproved or unknown sources, improper handwashing technique, unsanitized food contact surfaces, and no allergen awareness. Both also had improper sewage disposal as an intermediate violation.
HeadPinz Fort Myers on Global Parkway had two high-severity violations: food not cooked to the required minimum temperature and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. Carrabba's Italian Grill on Cleveland Avenue had one high-severity violation, for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized. Leoni's Pizzeria on Fiddlesticks Boulevard had one high-severity violation, for improper handwashing technique. Logan's Roadhouse on South Cleveland Avenue recorded no high-severity violations, only two intermediate citations for sewage disposal and ventilation.
What These Violations Mean
The employee illness reporting failures cited this week at XiXi Hibachi, Tung Hing, Snappers, Cafe In, Le Goute, and China Dragon represent one of the clearest outbreak risks in food service. When a worker with Norovirus handles food without reporting symptoms, the virus spreads through direct contact to every plate that worker touches. Norovirus can survive on surfaces for days. A single infected worker during a busy Friday dinner service can expose dozens of customers before anyone identifies the source.
The food from unapproved source violations at Cafe In, Chef Roland's Delight, and Sai Gon Baguette carry a different kind of risk. Food purchased outside of licensed, inspected suppliers has no traceability. If a customer gets sick, investigators cannot determine where the food originated, which farm processed it, or how many other people ate from the same batch. It also means the food bypassed USDA or FDA inspection entirely, potentially carrying Listeria, Salmonella, or E. coli with no record that any safety check ever occurred.
Parasite destruction failures at XiXi Hibachi, Snappers, and Wicked Good Deli are specifically dangerous at restaurants serving raw or lightly cooked fish. Parasites including Anisakis and tapeworm larvae survive in raw fish unless the fish is frozen to specific temperatures for a required minimum period. Skipping that step and serving the fish raw or seared puts customers at direct risk, with no visible sign that anything is wrong.
The toxic substance violations at Tung Hing, Clase Azul, and Tsaocaa and Hibachi are worth noting separately. Improperly stored or unlabeled chemicals near food preparation areas create immediate contamination risk. A container of cleaner stored next to cooking oil, or a spray bottle without a label, can result in chemical poisoning that presents within minutes of ingestion, not hours or days.
The Longer Record
Le Goute on Fowler Street has 48 prior inspections on record, the longest documented history of any facility cited this week. Six high-severity violations at a restaurant with that many inspections is not a new problem encountering the system for the first time. It is a facility the system has visited nearly 50 times and this week still found without adequate cooling equipment, without a person in charge, and with employees not reporting illness symptoms.
Tung Hing Chinese Restaurant has 33 prior inspections. This week's eight high-severity violations include food not cooked to temperature, a failure that is as basic as food safety enforcement gets. Headpinz Fort Myers and Clase Azul of Estero each have 37 prior inspections, meaning inspectors have returned to both locations dozens of times. Chef Roland's Delight has 30 prior inspections; China Dragon has 28; Wicked Good Deli has 28. Carrabba's has 31.
At the other end of the history scale, Sai Gon Baguette has only 5 prior inspections and already has four high-severity violations this week, including food from an unapproved source. Leoni's Pizzeria has 3 prior inspections. XiXi Hibachi and Sushi has 3 prior inspections, which makes its 10 high-severity citations in a single week a notable opening chapter for a restaurant still early in its regulatory record.
Snappers Comedy Club has 25 prior inspections and this week was cited for inadequate handwashing facilities, a structural deficiency that cannot be corrected by reminding employees to wash their hands more carefully. If the facility to wash hands in is inadequate, the handwashing cannot happen correctly regardless of intent, a problem that Snappers' 25-inspection record has apparently not yet resolved.
