VENICE, FL. Inspectors visiting Hotel Venezia, a Ramada Hotel on US 41 Bypass North, on June 2, 2026 found the kitchen was serving food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means there is no traceability if a guest gets sick and no guarantee the food ever passed a federal safety inspection.
That was one of seven high-severity violations documented during the visit. The hotel was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation sits at the top of the list for a reason. When a restaurant buys from unapproved suppliers, inspectors have no way to verify whether that food was processed under USDA or FDA oversight. If a guest falls ill, there is no supply chain to trace.
The kitchen was also cited for failing to cook food to required minimum temperatures. That is a direct pathway for Salmonella survival in poultry and other pathogens that heat is specifically designed to kill.
Inspectors also found no written employee health policy in place. That means no formal system exists to keep a sick worker out of the kitchen. Combined with a citation for improper handwashing technique, the two violations together describe a kitchen where pathogens can travel from an ill employee's hands to a guest's plate with nothing standing in the way.
Food contact surfaces, including cutting boards and prep equipment, were found not properly cleaned or sanitized. That is a separate cross-contamination route entirely.
Two more high-severity citations rounded out the list: no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked menu items, and no demonstrated allergen awareness among staff. The advisory requirement exists specifically to warn elderly guests, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems before they order something that carries elevated risk. The allergen gap is its own category of danger. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans, and a kitchen staff that cannot identify allergens in the food it is serving is a kitchen staff that cannot prevent an anaphylactic emergency.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of violations documented on June 2 is not a collection of paperwork failures. Each one is a distinct mechanism by which a guest could be harmed.
Food from unapproved sources means the hotel's kitchen was using ingredients with no verified inspection history. If that food carried Listeria or Salmonella, there would be no supplier record to pull when health officials tried to trace an outbreak. The unapproved sourcing violation and the undercooking violation together are particularly serious: food that was never federally inspected, prepared by a staff with no formal health policy, and not cooked to temperatures that would kill surviving pathogens.
The handwashing citation deserves its own attention. Improper technique, not just skipping handwashing entirely, means a worker can go through the motions of washing and still transfer Norovirus or other pathogens to every surface they touch afterward. Norovirus is responsible for an estimated 20 million illnesses in the United States each year, and hotel kitchens serving breakfast buffets are a documented transmission environment.
The allergen citation is the one that can produce the fastest, most severe outcome. A guest with a tree nut or shellfish allergy who asks a server whether a dish is safe, and receives an incorrect answer from an undertrained staff member, can go into anaphylactic shock. That is not a slow-developing illness. That is a medical emergency in the dining room.
The Longer Record
The June 2 inspection was not the first time Hotel Venezia has drawn serious scrutiny. State records show 22 inspections on file for the property, with 189 total violations accumulated across that history. The hotel has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern of high-severity citations is consistent and long-running. In September 2025, inspectors documented five high-severity and three intermediate violations. In January 2025, four high and two intermediate. In August 2023, seven high-severity and two intermediate violations, matching the count from the June 2026 visit exactly.
That August 2023 inspection is worth noting. The hotel reached the same threshold of seven high-severity violations nearly three years ago, was not closed then either, and arrived at the same number again this June. In between, no inspection on record came back clean of high-severity findings.
The two intermediate violations from June 2, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and improper waste disposal, add a secondary layer. Improper waste handling attracts rodents and insects. Inadequate ventilation allows grease-laden vapors and carbon monoxide to accumulate in a working kitchen. Neither is a minor housekeeping note.
Still Open
State inspectors documented nine violations at Hotel Venezia on June 2, 2026, seven of them high-severity. The findings included food of unknown origin, undercooked food, no health policy for sick workers, improper handwashing, unsanitized food contact surfaces, no allergen training, and no advisory for guests most at risk from raw ingredients.
The hotel continued serving guests.