HOLLYWOOD, FL. Inspectors visiting Quickie's Burger, Fish & Wings at 1000 S SR 7 on July 17 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, meaning some of what the restaurant served that day had never passed a USDA or FDA safety inspection. The restaurant was not closed.
That single violation was one of seven high-severity citations inspectors documented in a single visit. Two intermediate violations brought the total to nine.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source violation means inspectors could not confirm where some of the restaurant's food originated. If a customer became sick, there would be no supply chain to trace.
Shellfish records were also missing or inadequate. The state requires restaurants serving oysters, clams, or mussels to maintain shell stock identification tags so that contaminated batches can be traced back to their harvest beds. Without those records, a Norovirus or Vibrio outbreak linked to a specific shellfish harvest becomes nearly impossible to investigate.
The handwashing findings compounded every other violation on the list. Inspectors cited both inadequate handwashing by employees and improper hand and arm washing technique, meaning workers were either skipping the sink or going through the motions without removing pathogens.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. Cutting boards, prep tables, and utensils that carry bacteria from one food item to the next are among the most direct routes for cross-contamination in a kitchen.
The restaurant also had no written employee health policy, and inspectors flagged food in poor condition, mislabeled, or adulterated. An intermediate violation for improper sewage or wastewater disposal rounded out a list that covered nearly every critical category of food safety.
What These Violations Mean
Food from unapproved sources is not a paperwork problem. Every licensed food supplier in Florida operates under state and federal inspection requirements designed to catch contamination before product ships. When a restaurant bypasses that system, customers eating there have no assurance that what is on their plate was handled, stored, or processed under any safety standard. If someone gets sick, investigators have nowhere to start.
The shellfish traceability failure carries specific, acute risk. Shellfish filter seawater and concentrate whatever pathogens are present in their harvest environment. State law requires shell stock tags to stay attached until the last shellfish from that container is used, precisely because contaminated batches need to be pulled from the food supply quickly. At Quickie's Burger, Fish & Wings on July 17, that chain of accountability was broken.
The dual handwashing violations, inadequate frequency and improper technique, are not redundant. They describe two separate failure modes. One means workers were not washing at all when they should have been. The other means that when they did wash, they were not doing it correctly. Together, they describe a kitchen where hands served as a transfer surface for whatever else was wrong that day, including the contaminated food contact surfaces inspectors also cited.
The absence of an employee health policy means there is no formal requirement for workers to report symptoms of illness or stay home when sick. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants, spreads primarily through infected food handlers. Without a policy, a sick employee has no institutional reason to stay off the line.
The Longer Record
July's inspection was not a one-time stumble. State records show Quickie's Burger, Fish & Wings has been inspected 32 times, accumulating 258 violations in total.
The pattern in the recent history is consistent. In August 2024, inspectors found 11 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate ones, the worst single-visit tally in the recent record. Six months later, in December 2024, the count was 4 high and 3 intermediate. By July 2025, it was back to 3 high and 2 intermediate. December 2025 brought 2 high and 1 intermediate. Then July 2026 produced 7 high-severity violations.
The facility has never been emergency-closed in its inspection history. Two inspections in the record, December 2024 and December 2022, showed zero high or intermediate violations, which demonstrates the restaurant is capable of passing. Those clean inspections sit alongside visits where inspectors found 11 high-severity violations in a single afternoon.
The specific categories cited in July 2026, food sourcing, shellfish traceability, handwashing, and food contact surfaces, are not new concerns at this address. They represent the kind of systemic failures that appear, disappear, and reappear across a record spanning years.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure authority is triggered when an inspector determines that continued operation poses an immediate threat to public health. Seven high-severity violations, including food from an unknown source, missing shellfish records, and a kitchen where employees were not washing their hands correctly, did not meet that threshold on July 17.
Quickie's Burger, Fish & Wings at 1000 S SR 7 in Hollywood remained open after the inspection.
