ORLANDO, FL. A food worker at Landmark Center / Omega Deli at 315 Robinson Ave was observed using improper handwashing technique during an April 28 inspection, meaning pathogens remained on their hands after a washing attempt, and that worker had no written health policy requiring them to report illness symptoms in the first place.
The state inspector left the deli open.
What Inspectors Found
The April 28 inspection documented nine violations in total, seven of them rated high severity. Among the most alarming: food at the deli was sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, meaning it had bypassed USDA and FDA safety inspections entirely. Inspectors also cited a failure to follow parasite destruction procedures, a requirement that applies to fish, pork, and other meats that can harbor organisms like Anisakis tapeworm or Trichinella if not properly frozen or cooked.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. That violation, combined with improperly used wiping cloths documented as an intermediate violation, describes a facility where the tools meant to prevent cross-contamination were themselves spreading it.
Toxic substances were improperly identified, stored, or used. Inspectors also cited improper sewage or wastewater disposal, a violation that creates risk of fecal contamination throughout the facility.
What These Violations Mean
The food sourcing violation is one of the most serious an inspector can document. When a restaurant obtains food from an unknown or unapproved supplier, there is no traceability if a customer becomes ill. If a Listeria or Salmonella outbreak were linked to the facility, investigators would have nowhere to start. The supply chain that normally allows health officials to pull contaminated product and warn the public simply does not exist.
The employee illness violations compound that risk directly. The deli had no written health policy requiring workers to report symptoms, and an employee was observed not reporting illness. Food workers who continue working while symptomatic are the leading cause of multi-victim Norovirus outbreaks. A written policy is not a formality; it is the mechanism that keeps a sick worker out of the kitchen before customers are exposed.
The parasite destruction failure is specific and serious. Fish and certain meats must be frozen to precise temperatures for defined periods to kill organisms that survive cooking at normal temperatures. Without documentation that those procedures were followed, there is no way to know whether the fish or meat served to customers was safe.
Improperly cleaned food contact surfaces, the kind of cutting boards and prep tables that touch raw and ready-to-eat food alike, are one of the most reliable routes for bacterial transfer in a commercial kitchen. Combined with the unapproved food source and the absence of an illness reporting policy, the April 28 inspection described a facility where multiple independent safeguards had failed at the same time.
The Longer Record
Landmark Center / Omega Deli: Recent Inspection Pattern
The April inspection was not an anomaly. State records show the deli has been inspected 28 times and has accumulated 182 total violations across its history. It has never been emergency-closed.
The two most recent inspections before April 28 each produced an identical score: 7 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations. The February 23, 2026 inspection and the April 28, 2026 inspection are, by violation count, carbon copies of each other. Whatever was cited in February was not resolved by April.
Going back further, the pattern holds. The August 2025 inspection found 6 high-severity and 3 intermediate violations. The February 2025 inspection found 5 high-severity violations. The August 2024 inspection found 6 high-severity violations. The deli has logged at least 5 high-severity violations in five of its last eight inspections on record.
That is not a facility having a bad stretch. That is a facility operating at a sustained level of high-severity non-compliance across multiple inspection cycles, with no emergency closure on record in 28 inspections.
Still Open
The April 28 inspection ended without an emergency closure order. Customers who visited Landmark Center / Omega Deli after that date had no notice from the state that food there had come from unapproved sources, that parasite destruction procedures had not been followed, or that the employee who prepared their food had no formal obligation to stay home when sick.
The deli remained open.