JACKSONVILLE, FL. In April 2026, a state inspector walked into My Place Bar and Grill on Baymeadows Road and found food that had not been cooked to the minimum required temperature, toxic chemicals stored improperly near food, and no one in charge who was actively performing managerial duties. The restaurant was cited for six high-severity violations and four intermediate violations. It was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The cooking temperature violation sits at the top of any inspector's concern list. Poultry that does not reach 165 degrees Fahrenheit can harbor live Salmonella. The record does not specify which item was undercooked, but the citation was classified as high severity.
Alongside that, the inspector cited toxic chemicals stored or labeled improperly. That violation, also high severity, means cleaning agents or other chemical products were in a position where they could contaminate food or food-contact surfaces, either through mislabeling or proximity.
The inspector also found that food contact surfaces had not been properly cleaned or sanitized, and that employees were using improper hand and arm washing technique. Both of those violations compound each other: if hands are not clean and the surfaces those hands touch are also not clean, the transfer of bacteria from one food to another becomes a near-certainty.
There was no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods. Without that notice, customers who are pregnant, elderly, or immunocompromised have no way of knowing they may be ordering something that carries elevated risk.
The person in charge was either absent or not actively performing managerial duties. That was the sixth high-severity citation.
On the intermediate level, the inspector documented improper sanitizer concentration or procedures, the reuse of single-use items, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and problems with the toilet facilities. None of those are minor in isolation. Together with six high-severity findings, they describe a facility that was not being actively managed on the day of the inspection.
What These Violations Mean
The undercooking citation is the one that most directly threatened anyone who ate at My Place Bar and Grill that day. Salmonella survives in poultry that does not reach 165 degrees, and a single contaminated serving can cause illness severe enough to require hospitalization. The absence of a consumer advisory compounds that risk, because customers ordering anything that might be served undercooked had no warning.
The chemical storage violation is a different category of danger. Cleaning products stored near food, or containers that are mislabeled, can cause acute poisoning with no warning signs until someone becomes seriously ill. Unlike bacterial contamination, which typically takes hours or days to produce symptoms, chemical poisoning from a mislabeled container can be immediate.
The hand-washing technique violation matters because going through the motions of washing hands is not the same as actually removing pathogens. Studies have shown that improper technique leaves bacteria on hands even after a washing attempt. At My Place Bar and Grill in April, inspectors found that employees were not washing correctly, and that the surfaces those hands touched were also not clean.
The absence of an active person in charge ties all of it together. CDC data indicates that facilities without active managerial control have three times as many critical violations as those with engaged supervision. Every other violation on the April 16 list is, in some sense, a downstream consequence of that one.
The Longer Record
The April 2026 inspection was the fourteenth on record for My Place Bar and Grill. Across those 14 inspections, the facility has accumulated 102 total violations.
The pattern is not new. In March 2025, a single inspection produced six high-severity and six intermediate violations, a number that nearly mirrors the April 2026 findings. A follow-up inspection the next day showed zero violations in either category, the kind of rapid cleanup that suggests problems were correctable but had not been prevented in the first place. The same cycle appeared in 2024, when an inspection in March found two high-severity and six intermediate violations.
My Place Bar and Grill: Selected Inspection History
The facility's one prior emergency closure came in February 2015, when roach activity prompted a shutdown. The restaurant was allowed to reopen the next day. That closure is now more than a decade behind the current record.
What the April 2026 inspection added to that history was a cooking temperature failure and a chemical storage violation, two citations that go beyond sanitation and into direct food safety. The facility had been cited six times at high severity before, in March 2025, and remained open after that inspection as well.
After the March 2025 inspection, a follow-up the next day found zero high-severity violations. No follow-up inspection date appears in the record for the April 16, 2026 visit.
My Place Bar and Grill was open to customers when the inspector left.