JACKSONVILLE, FL. A Larry's Giant Subs on Atlantic Boulevard was cited for seven high-severity violations during a July 24 inspection, including no written employee health policy, food in poor condition, and the improper use of time as a public health control. The restaurant was not closed.
The inspection found no person in charge present or performing duties at the time of the visit. State records show that same inspection also cited employees for not reporting symptoms of illness and the facility for having no employee health policy at all, written or otherwise.
Those three violations arrived together. That combination, no manager, no illness policy, and no mechanism for employees to flag their own symptoms, describes a restaurant where the basic supervisory layer between a sick worker and a customer's food was absent.
What Inspectors Found
Beyond the management failures, inspectors cited food in poor condition, meaning food that was spoiled, contaminated, mislabeled, or adulterated. The record does not specify which product. But the citation sits alongside a finding that time as a public health control was not being properly used.
That second violation refers to a specific practice: when a facility cannot or does not use refrigeration to keep food safe, state rules allow food to remain in the temperature danger zone between 41 and 135 degrees for a limited window, provided the facility tracks start times and discards food before the window closes. The July 24 inspection found that system was not working as required.
Inspectors also cited the location for inadequate shell stock identification records. Larry's Giant Subs is a sandwich chain, not a seafood restaurant, which makes that citation notable. Shell stock records exist so that oysters, clams, or mussels can be traced back to their harvest location if someone gets sick. Without them, that traceability disappears entirely.
The eighth and only intermediate violation was improper use of wiping cloths, a finding that inspectors documented as a contamination-spread risk.
What These Violations Mean
The trio of illness-related violations, no health policy, no symptom reporting, and no manager enforcing either, is the combination most directly linked to multi-victim outbreaks. Norovirus alone accounts for roughly 20 million illnesses in the United States each year, and food workers who continue working while sick are the primary transmission route in restaurant settings. A written health policy is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the mechanism that tells a worker with vomiting or diarrhea to stay home, and it gives a manager the authority and obligation to send that worker home.
Without a person in charge present, none of that enforcement happens. CDC data cited in the inspection record indicates that establishments without active managerial control produce three times as many critical violations as those with it. That multiplier is visible in the July 24 record.
The time-as-public-health-control violation carries its own risk. When food sits in the temperature danger zone without a functioning time-tracking system, there is no reliable way to know how long it has been there or when it needs to be discarded. The adulterated or poor-condition food citation, documented on the same day, adds to that picture.
The missing consumer advisory is a separate but direct concern. Customers who are elderly, pregnant, immunocompromised, or very young are told by health officials to avoid raw or undercooked foods. A consumer advisory is how they receive that warning in a restaurant setting. Without it, they cannot make an informed choice.
The Longer Record
Larry's Giant Subs, Atlantic Blvd: Inspection History
The July 24 inspection was not an anomaly. State records show 13 inspections on file for this location, producing 58 total violations. High-severity violations appear in the record going back to at least January 2021.
The pattern of inspection and re-inspection is itself telling. On September 2, 2025, inspectors found three high-severity violations and returned the next day, at which point the location passed. On October 31, 2024, they found four high-severity violations. The July 24, 2026 inspection produced seven. Three days later, on July 27, a follow-up inspection still found four high-severity violations.
The location has never been emergency-closed in its recorded history. After accumulating seven high-severity violations on July 24, it was not closed then either. It remained open and serving customers on Atlantic Boulevard.
