NAPLES, FL. Inspectors visiting Komoon Thai Sushi & Ceviche on Pine Ridge Road on July 10 found a restaurant with no written employee health policy, documented failures in handwashing, food contact surfaces that had not been properly cleaned or sanitized, and shellfish with no traceability records, all while no person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties. The restaurant logged seven high-severity violations and one intermediate violation. It was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The three violations that cluster most tightly around disease transmission are the absence of any written employee health policy, the finding that employees were not reporting illness symptoms, and the documented failure in handwashing. Together, they describe a kitchen where a sick employee had no formal obligation to disclose symptoms, no written standard telling them what to do, and no consistent barrier between their hands and the food leaving the kitchen.
The shellfish violation adds a separate and specific concern for anyone who ordered raw or lightly cooked shellfish that day. Without proper shell stock identification records, there is no way to trace where the oysters, clams, or mussels came from if a customer later becomes ill.
The restaurant also lacked a consumer advisory notifying diners that raw or undercooked items carry elevated risk. A sushi and ceviche concept serves raw fish as a core part of its menu. Customers with compromised immune systems, elderly diners, and pregnant women have no way to make an informed choice without that notice on the menu.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of no health policy and no symptom reporting is not a paperwork problem. Norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness in the United States with roughly 20 million cases annually, spreads primarily through infected food workers who continue working while sick. A written health policy is the mechanism that gives workers a clear instruction to stay home and gives management a legal and operational framework to enforce that. Without it, the kitchen has no documented standard at all.
Improper handwashing is consistently identified by food safety researchers as the single most significant factor in spreading foodborne illness. In a kitchen handling raw fish, raw shellfish, and ready-to-eat sushi rice, hands that move between raw proteins and finished plates without adequate washing are a direct transfer route for pathogens including Salmonella, Vibrio, and Listeria.
The food contact surface violation compounds both of those risks. Cutting boards, prep surfaces, and equipment that are not properly cleaned and sanitized between uses allow bacteria from one protein to transfer to the next item placed on that surface. Improperly cleaned multi-use utensils, the intermediate violation cited the same day, develop bacterial biofilms that become increasingly resistant to standard cleaning over time.
The shellfish traceability failure is its own category of risk. If a customer develops a Vibrio infection after eating raw shellfish at Komoon, investigators would have no shell stock records to work backward from, no way to identify the harvest location, the dealer, or other customers who may have received the same batch.
The Longer Record
Komoon Thai Sushi & Ceviche: Inspection Pattern, 2023-2026
The July 10 inspection is not an outlier. Komoon has 43 inspections on record and 224 total violations accumulated across that history. The restaurant has been emergency-closed twice, both times in 2023, both times for rodent and fly activity, and both times reopened within 24 hours.
The pattern in the more recent record is notable. On July 22, 2025, inspectors cited eight high-severity violations. Three months later the April 2026 inspection cycle opened with five high-severity violations on April 1, followed by two more on April 2, before a clean high-severity count on April 6. That cycle, a spike followed by a quick correction for the follow-up visit, has appeared more than once in the record.
The July 10, 2026 inspection came roughly three months after that April correction. Seven high-severity violations, including the foundational management and illness-policy failures, were back.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure authority is triggered when an inspector determines that conditions pose an immediate threat to public health. Seven high-severity violations, including no illness reporting policy, no handwashing compliance, unsanitized food contact surfaces, and untracked shellfish, did not meet that threshold on July 10.
Komoon Thai Sushi & Ceviche remained open that day and continued serving customers.
