ORLANDO, FL. Food workers at a corporate cafeteria serving Lockheed Martin employees were not reporting symptoms of illness to management, state inspectors found during a May 19 visit to Restaura, Inc. at Lockheed Martin on Sandlake Road, and the facility had no written employee health policy in place to require them to do so.
The inspection that day produced seven high-severity violations and one intermediate citation. The facility was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The illness violations were compounded by a food temperature failure. Inspectors cited the kitchen for not cooking food to the required minimum temperature, a violation that allows dangerous pathogens to survive in finished dishes served directly to employees.
Inspectors also documented food in poor condition, mislabeled or adulterated, as well as a failure to properly use time as a public health control. When a facility chooses to use time rather than temperature to keep food safe, it must follow strict written procedures and discard food at set intervals. Neither was happening correctly here.
The cafeteria was also cited for failing to post a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked menu items, and for not following required procedures for specialized food processes such as smoking, curing, or reduced-oxygen packaging. A single intermediate violation for multi-use utensils not properly cleaned rounded out the inspection report.
What These Violations Mean
The pairing of no employee health policy and employees not reporting illness symptoms is among the most direct routes to a multi-victim outbreak in any food service setting. Norovirus spreads through an infected food worker's hands to food within minutes, and a cafeteria serving a concentrated, repeat-customer workforce like an aerospace manufacturing campus amplifies that risk considerably. Every person who ate at this facility on May 19 was served by a kitchen where sick workers were not required by written policy to stay home or report their condition.
The undercooking violation adds a separate and independent hazard. Salmonella in poultry, for example, survives temperatures below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. When food is not cooked to minimum required temperatures, the danger is not theoretical; it is a function of whether the pathogen was present in the raw ingredient. There is no way to know from the inspection record alone whether it was.
The time-as-public-health-control failure matters because it is an alternative system, not a backup. A facility that chooses that method must follow it precisely or the food in question becomes unsafe at an unknown point during service. Inspectors found it was not being used properly at this location.
Improperly cleaned multi-use utensils, while listed as an intermediate violation, carry their own sustained risk. Bacterial biofilms form on inadequately sanitized surfaces within 24 hours and are significantly harder to remove than fresh contamination. In a high-volume cafeteria, the same utensils cycle through dozens of uses per service period.
The Longer Record
The May 19 inspection was not the first time this kitchen has drawn serious scrutiny. State records show 24 inspections on file for this location, with 90 total violations documented across that history. The facility has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern across recent inspections shows persistent high-severity citations. The six months before this inspection, in October 2025, produced two high-severity and two intermediate violations. The inspection before that, in April 2025, produced one high-severity violation. Going back further, February 2023 resulted in two high-severity and two intermediate citations, and August 2022 produced one high-severity and one intermediate.
None of those prior inspections came close to the seven high-severity violations recorded on May 19, 2026. That single inspection represents the most concentrated cluster of serious citations in the facility's documented history.
One day after the May 19 inspection, a follow-up visit on May 20 still found two high-severity violations remaining. The problems documented on May 19 were not fully resolved within 24 hours.
Still Open
State inspectors have the authority to order an emergency closure when violations present an immediate threat to public health. Seven high-severity violations at a single inspection, including employees not reporting illness and food not cooked to required temperatures, did not trigger that order at this location.
The cafeteria continued serving Lockheed Martin employees after the inspection concluded.