ORLANDO, FL. Inspectors visiting Pesaro's Pizza on Avalon Park East Boulevard on August 10, 2026, found the restaurant serving food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, cooking food below required minimum temperatures, and storing toxic chemicals improperly near the kitchen, all on the same day. The restaurant accumulated nine high-severity violations and four intermediate violations. It was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation is among the most serious documented. When a restaurant obtains food from an unapproved or unknown supplier, that food has bypassed USDA and FDA safety inspections entirely. There is no traceability if a customer gets sick.
Inspectors also cited the kitchen for failing to cook food to required minimum temperatures. That violation, combined with a separate citation for improperly using time as a public health control, means food at Pesaro's was spending time in the temperature range where bacteria multiply most rapidly, and not being cooked hot enough afterward to kill what had grown.
A third cluster of violations centered on employee practices. Workers were cited for improper handwashing technique and for failing to report illness symptoms. No person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties at the time of the inspection.
Toxic chemicals were found improperly stored or labeled near food areas. Inspectors also cited food contact surfaces for not being properly cleaned or sanitized, and documented multi-use utensils and single-use items being reused in ways that violate code. Ventilation, lighting, and toilet facilities were flagged at the intermediate level.
What These Violations Mean
The food sourcing citation carries a specific consequence that most diners don't consider: if someone becomes ill, investigators have no supply chain to trace. Approved suppliers maintain records. Unknown sources don't. Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli have all been linked to food from uninspected channels.
The undercooking violation compounds the sourcing problem. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. If the food itself came from an unverified source and was then undercooked, there is no safety checkpoint between the supplier and the customer's plate.
The employee illness reporting failure is separately dangerous. Food workers are the number one transmission route for norovirus outbreaks. An employee who does not report symptoms, and who is also documented as washing hands improperly, represents a direct path from illness to the food being served.
Improperly stored toxic chemicals near food areas can cause acute poisoning through contamination or mislabeling. This is not a theoretical risk. State records have documented chemical poisoning incidents at food service operations where storage violations of this type were present.
The Longer Record
The August 10 inspection was not an aberration. It was a near-exact repeat of the February 18, 2026, inspection, which also produced nine high-severity and four intermediate violations. Two inspections this calendar year. Identical totals both times.
The inspection history at Pesaro's Pizza stretches across 33 recorded visits with 334 total violations on file. The most recent eight inspections, going back to 2023, all included between four and nine high-severity violations. There has not been a clean inspection in the documented record.
In the summer of 2025, inspectors visited the restaurant three times in four days. On July 28, they found six high-severity violations. On July 30, they returned and found six more high-severity violations. On July 31, a third visit produced four high-severity violations. Whatever corrections were made that week did not hold. By February 2026, the restaurant was back to nine high-severity violations.
The facility's one emergency closure came in March 2016, when inspectors found roach activity and ordered the restaurant shut. It reopened two days later. In the decade since, there have been no additional closures, despite a consistent pattern of high-severity citations in every inspection year on record.
Still Open
State inspectors visited Pesaro's Pizza on August 10, 2026, documented nine high-severity violations including food from unknown sources, undercooking, improperly stored chemicals, and employees not reporting illness symptoms, and left the restaurant open.
It was the fourteenth high-severity violation the restaurant had accumulated across two inspections in 2026 alone.
The restaurant at 3464 Avalon Park East Boulevard, Suite 108, was not emergency-closed.
