KENDALL, FL. Inspectors visiting GheeMiami at 8965 SW 72 Place on August 4, 2026 found food not cooked to the minimum required temperature, a violation that state health officials link directly to pathogen survival, including Salmonella in poultry, which can sicken or kill if the meat never reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
The restaurant was not closed.
Inspectors documented eight high-severity violations and two intermediate violations during the visit. The combination of undercooking, failed handwashing infrastructure, and no written employee health policy placed the facility in a category that state data consistently associates with elevated risk of foodborne illness outbreaks.
What Inspectors Found
The handwashing violations compounded each other. Inspectors cited both inadequate handwashing facilities, meaning the physical infrastructure was insufficient, and improper handwashing technique, meaning that even when employees did wash their hands, they did not do it correctly. Both violations were flagged as high severity in the same inspection.
Food contact surfaces were also cited as not properly cleaned or sanitized. Cutting boards, prep tables, and similar surfaces that touch food directly are among the most reliable vectors for bacterial transfer between raw and ready-to-eat items.
Inspectors also noted that the facility was using time as a public health control without doing so properly. When temperature control is not used for certain foods, time limits are supposed to prevent bacterial growth. The citation indicates those limits were not being tracked or enforced correctly.
No consumer advisory was posted for raw or undercooked foods. That posting is required specifically to warn customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or otherwise at elevated risk. Without it, those customers have no way of knowing a dish may be served below a safe temperature.
The person in charge was either absent or not performing required supervisory duties. That single violation, according to CDC data cited in the inspection records, correlates with three times the rate of critical violations at a facility.
What These Violations Mean
The undercooking violation is the one that carries the most immediate consequence for a customer. Salmonella in poultry is destroyed at 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Below that threshold, it survives. A customer who ate an undercooked dish at GheeMiami on August 4 had no way of knowing the food had not reached a safe temperature, and no consumer advisory on the wall to suggest they should ask.
The employee health policy violation compounds the risk in a different direction. Without a written policy, there is no formal mechanism requiring sick employees to stay home or report symptoms to management. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States, spreads through exactly this gap. An employee working while infected can contaminate food, surfaces, and other employees.
The sewage and wastewater disposal violation introduces a third exposure pathway. Improper disposal of sewage creates conditions for fecal contamination throughout a facility. Combined with inadequate handwashing infrastructure, the two violations feed each other: employees cannot wash their hands properly if the sinks or plumbing are compromised.
Together, the ten violations documented on August 4 represent failures at nearly every stage of the food safety chain, from cooking temperature to hand hygiene to management oversight to consumer notification.
The Longer Record
GheeMiami Inspection History, Selected Visits
GheeMiami has 23 inspections on record and 279 total violations. The August 4 inspection was not an outlier.
In November 2025, inspectors found 11 high-severity violations in a single visit, the highest single-day count in the facility's recorded history. A follow-up inspection the next day still produced five high-severity citations. The month before that, in July 2025, the count was ten high-severity violations. In February 2025, eight. The facility has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern across 2024 and 2025 shows high-severity violation counts of nine, nine, five, eight, ten, eleven, and five in consecutive inspections. The August 2026 inspection, at eight high-severity violations, falls squarely in the middle of that range.
The facility has accumulated 279 violations across 23 inspections without a single emergency closure on record. As of August 4, 2026, GheeMiami remained open.
