PEMBROKE PINES, FL. Employees at a Pembroke Pines wings and raw bar were not reporting illness symptoms to management, had no written employee health policy in place, and were using improper handwashing technique, state records show. Inspectors documented all three conditions on the same visit.
The July 23, 2026 inspection of Jersey's Wings & Raw Bar at 12592 Pines Blvd turned up six high-severity violations and one intermediate violation. The restaurant was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The violations span nearly every layer of a restaurant's food safety system. No responsible manager on duty. No written policy requiring sick employees to stay home. Employees who were present not reporting symptoms. Workers washing their hands incorrectly. Food contact surfaces left improperly cleaned and sanitized. And a raw bar serving undercooked seafood without the required consumer advisory on the menu.
The absence of a consumer advisory is particularly pointed at a raw bar. State rules require restaurants serving raw or undercooked shellfish to post a written warning on the menu, specifically because customers with weakened immune systems, pregnant women, the elderly, and young children face acute risk from pathogens like Vibrio vulnificus that survive in raw oysters and clams. No advisory means those customers had no way to make an informed choice.
Food contact surfaces and multi-use utensils that are not properly cleaned round out the picture. Surfaces that appear clean but have not been sanitized can transfer bacteria directly to the next plate of food prepared on them.
What These Violations Mean
The three illness-related violations, taken together, describe a facility where sick employees could have been handling food without anyone stopping them. A written health policy is the baseline mechanism that tells workers when they are required to stay home. Without it, there is no documented standard. Without reporting, there is no trigger for that standard to be applied. And if a worker does wash their hands but uses incorrect technique, pathogens remain on their hands regardless.
Norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States, spreads primarily through infected food handlers. A single sick employee with improper handwashing technique, working at a facility with no illness reporting requirement, can expose dozens of customers in a single shift.
The food contact surface violation compounds that risk. Cutting boards, prep tables, and counters that are not properly sanitized between uses become transfer points. Bacteria from one food item, or one employee's hands, moves to the next.
The person-in-charge violation ties all of it together. CDC data shows that establishments without active managerial control accumulate critical violations at three times the rate of those with a responsible manager present and engaged. At Jersey's on July 23, inspectors found no one performing that function.
The Longer Record
This was not an aberration. Jersey's Wings & Raw Bar has 25 inspections on record and 251 total violations documented across those visits.
The most recent eight inspections, dating back to February 2023, each produced high-severity violations. The July 2023 inspection found seven high-severity violations and two intermediate ones. The February 2023 inspection found six high-severity violations. The July 2025 inspection found six high-severity violations and three intermediate violations, a nearly identical profile to the July 2026 visit.
High-severity violations have appeared in every single inspection on record in this data set. The counts range from two to seven, but they have never reached zero.
The facility has never been emergency-closed. Its 251 total violations across 25 inspections average just over ten violations per inspection visit.
The Pattern
The July 2026 inspection mirrors the July 2025 inspection almost exactly: six high-severity violations, overlapping categories, no closure. A year passed between those two visits with no apparent structural improvement in the areas inspectors keep flagging.
The illness-reporting and health policy violations are not incidental findings. They describe the absence of a written system that every food service establishment is required to maintain. That system either does not exist at Jersey's or has not been implemented in a way inspectors can verify, and the record shows inspectors have been raising high-severity concerns at this address for at least three and a half years.
Jersey's Wings & Raw Bar was open for business after the July 23 inspection.
