HIALEAH GARDENS, FL. Inspectors visiting Pa Que Tiby at 8040 NW 95th Street on April 22 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means anything served that day could have entered the kitchen without ever passing a USDA or FDA safety check.
That was one of six high-severity violations documented in a single visit. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source violation stands on its own as the most consequential finding. When food enters a kitchen outside regulated supply chains, there is no paper trail. If a customer gets sick, investigators have no way to trace the ingredient back to its origin.
The handwashing record was equally stark. Inspectors cited both inadequate handwashing and improper technique, meaning employees were not washing their hands often enough and, when they did wash, were not doing it correctly. Those are not the same violation, and the fact that both appeared on the same inspection report suggests a systemic breakdown in basic hygiene practice.
The facility also had no written employee health policy, meaning there was no formal mechanism to keep sick workers out of the kitchen. Combined with the handwashing failures, that creates a direct, documented pathway for illness to travel from an employee to a plate.
Two more high-severity citations rounded out the list. The restaurant had no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, leaving elderly customers, pregnant women, and anyone with a compromised immune system without the warning the state requires. Staff also demonstrated no allergen awareness, a gap the state classifies as high-severity because allergic reactions send roughly 30,000 Americans to emergency rooms each year.
On the intermediate level, inspectors flagged improper sewage or wastewater disposal, single-use items being reused, and inadequate ventilation and lighting. The sewage finding is not a paperwork issue. Improper wastewater handling introduces fecal contamination risk into a food preparation environment.
What These Violations Mean
The unapproved food source violation is the one most customers would find hardest to see coming. Regulated suppliers are inspected. Their products are traceable. Food that bypasses that system, whether from an informal vendor or an unlicensed distributor, may carry Listeria, Salmonella, or E. coli without anyone knowing until someone is hospitalized.
The dual handwashing violations, inadequate frequency and improper technique, matter because hands are the most common vehicle for spreading Norovirus and other pathogens in a restaurant setting. Studies show that even a partial handwashing attempt can leave enough contamination on skin to transfer illness. At Pa Que Tiby on April 22, inspectors documented both problems at once.
The absence of an employee health policy is the structural failure behind the handwashing failures. A written policy sets the rules. Without one, there is no standard for when a sick employee must stay home, no training requirement, and no accountability. That is the condition inspectors found here.
The allergen violation deserves its own sentence. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans. A kitchen where no one can demonstrate allergen awareness is a kitchen where a customer with a peanut or shellfish allergy has no reliable protection.
The Longer Record
The April 22 inspection did not happen in isolation. State records show Pa Que Tiby has been inspected 27 times and has accumulated 264 violations across its history. That is not a facility encountering its first difficult inspection.
The pattern in the prior inspection record is consistent. In October 2024, inspectors cited seven high-severity violations. In January 2025, four high-severity violations. In September 2025, four more. The April 22 count of six high-severity violations is the highest single-inspection total in the recent record, but it sits inside a sequence that has never shown a sustained improvement.
The one exception in the prior record is a May 2024 inspection that found zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations. That result stands alone. Every inspection before it and every inspection after it returned high-severity citations. A single clean inspection in the middle of a long pattern of violations is not evidence of a turnaround.
The facility has never been emergency-closed in its inspection history. That record held after April 22 as well.
Still Open
A follow-up inspection on April 23, the day after the six-violation visit, found one high-severity and one intermediate violation remaining. Some of the April 22 findings had been addressed within 24 hours.
The food from unapproved sources, the handwashing failures, the missing health policy, the absent allergen training. Those violations were documented on a Wednesday. The restaurant served customers through it all, and it was open again on Thursday.