LAUDERHILL, FL. State inspectors walked into Jamaica House Restaurant II on West Broward Boulevard on August 11 and found food sourced from suppliers that have never been inspected or approved by any regulatory authority, with no way to trace where that food came from or what it contained.
That was one of ten high-severity violations documented that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The full list reads like a checklist of the conditions most likely to make someone sick. Inspectors cited inadequate handwashing, improper handwashing technique, food contact surfaces that were not properly cleaned or sanitized, and an employee who had not reported symptoms of illness. All four were flagged as high-severity.
Toxic substances were improperly identified, stored, or used. That violation sits alongside the food-sourcing citation as among the most immediately dangerous findings of the day.
The restaurant also lacked a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, meaning customers with weakened immune systems, pregnant women, elderly diners, and children had no warning that certain menu items carried elevated risk. Inspectors additionally found inadequate shell stock identification records, meaning shellfish served at the restaurant could not be traced to a licensed harvester if someone became ill.
No person in charge was present or performing duties at the time of the inspection.
What These Violations Mean
Food from an unapproved source is not a paperwork problem. It means the food bypassed every checkpoint in the federal safety system, including USDA and FDA inspections designed to screen for Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli before product reaches a kitchen. If a customer got sick from something served at Jamaica House Restaurant II that day, investigators would have no supply chain to trace.
The undercooking violation compounds that risk. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. When food arrives from an unverified source and is then served undercooked, the two violations work together in a way that neither one does alone.
The sewage disposal citation is a different category of danger. Improper wastewater handling creates the conditions for fecal contamination to spread through a facility, including onto food preparation surfaces. The inadequate toilet facilities violation, cited the same day, undermines the one infrastructure measure most likely to interrupt that contamination pathway: employees washing their hands after using the restroom.
The illness-reporting failure means that on August 11, an employee showing symptoms of a potentially communicable illness was working in a food-service environment without having disclosed that to management. Norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurant settings, spreads through exactly this scenario.
The Longer Record
The August 11 inspection was not Jamaica House Restaurant II's first encounter with serious violations. State records show nine inspections on file for the Lauderhill location, with 43 total violations documented across those visits.
High-severity violations appeared in seven of the eight prior inspections. The June 2025 visits, on consecutive days, produced four high-severity violations on June 11 and three more on June 12. The November 2024 inspection found two high-severity and two intermediate violations. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern is not one of isolated incidents. High-severity citations have appeared at this address in May 2024, September 2024, November 2024, June 2025, August 2025, and December 2025, before the ten-violation inspection in August 2026. That is a facility accumulating serious citations across more than two years without a single emergency closure on record.
The day after the August 11 inspection, a follow-up visit on August 12 found one high-severity violation and one intermediate violation still present. Two days of inspections, eleven high-severity violations between them.
Open for Business
State inspectors documented ten high-severity violations at Jamaica House Restaurant II on August 11. They documented food with no traceable origin, food that had not reached safe cooking temperatures, chemicals stored or used improperly, an ill employee who had not reported symptoms, surfaces that had not been properly sanitized, and sewage that was not being properly disposed of.
The restaurant remained open.
