ORLANDO, FL. A Jersey Mike's Subs on South Orange Avenue stayed open in October after a state inspector documented six high-severity violations, including employees not reporting illness symptoms and toxic chemicals stored improperly near food.
The October 7 inspection of Jersey Mike's Subs at 3155 S. Orange Ave. turned up no intermediate violations and no basic violations. Every single violation logged was high-severity. The restaurant was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The inspector found that employees were not reporting symptoms of illness, and that the location had no written employee health policy or an inadequate one. Those two violations appeared together, each logged as high-severity.
Toxic chemicals were improperly stored or labeled at the location. The inspector also cited food in poor condition, mislabeled, or adulterated, a violation that covers spoiled, contaminated, or otherwise compromised product.
Two additional high-severity citations rounded out the list: no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods, and inadequate shell stock identification or records for shellfish. All six violations were high-severity. None were intermediate or basic.
What These Violations Mean
The pairing of no employee health policy and employees not reporting illness is the most direct public health threat in this inspection record. Food workers who come in sick and are not required to report symptoms are the primary driver of multi-victim Norovirus outbreaks. Norovirus spreads person-to-person through contaminated food handled by an infected worker, and a single employee can expose dozens of customers before anyone realizes what happened.
The toxic chemicals violation adds a separate and acute risk. Cleaning agents or other chemicals stored near food or improperly labeled can contaminate product directly, and a mislabeled chemical can be mistaken for a food-safe substance. At this location, that risk existed alongside food already cited as being in poor condition or mislabeled.
The shellfish traceability violation, while it may seem technical, carries real consequences. Shellfish consumed raw or lightly cooked, including oysters and clams, are among the highest-risk foods in any kitchen. Without proper identification tags and records, there is no way to trace a contaminated batch back to its source if customers get sick. The consumer advisory violation compounds this: customers with compromised immune systems, pregnant women, and elderly diners have no posted warning that certain items may be served undercooked.
The Longer Record
This is not the first time this location has drawn serious citations. State records show 16 inspections on file for the South Orange Avenue Jersey Mike's, with 72 total violations across that history.
The May 2026 inspection, five months before this one, produced four high-severity violations and zero intermediate ones. The pattern of high-severity findings without intermediate or basic violations is notable: it suggests inspectors are not catching minor issues alongside the serious ones, or that the serious ones are recurring without the lower-level problems being addressed.
Going back further, the location logged three high-severity violations in January 2023, two high-severity violations in August 2022, and two more in November 2023. The one clean inspection in this record came in June 2024, when the location drew zero violations at all. Four months earlier, in April 2024, it had drawn a high-severity violation on back-to-back inspection dates.
The location has never been emergency-closed in its inspection history. October's six high-severity violations are the highest single-inspection count on record for this address.
Open for Business
State inspectors have the authority to order an emergency closure when conditions pose an immediate threat to public health. Six high-severity violations at this location on October 7 did not meet that threshold.
Employees who were not required to report illness symptoms were working at a sandwich counter. Chemicals were improperly stored. Food was in poor condition or mislabeled. Shellfish on hand had no traceable records.
The restaurant remained open.
