MIAMI, FL. Inspectors visiting Rey's Pizza #6 at 2486 SW 137th Ave on April 28 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers inside a restaurant that was actively serving customers, one of eight high-severity violations documented that day. The facility was not closed.
The April inspection produced 14 total violations: 8 high-severity and 6 intermediate. Under Florida's inspection framework, a single high-severity violation can trigger an emergency closure. Eight did not.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source violation sits at the top of the severity list for a specific reason: food that bypasses USDA and FDA inspection carries no traceability. If a customer gets sick, there is no supply chain to trace, no recall to issue, no way to know how many other people may have eaten the same product.
Toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled, and a separate citation for toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used, appeared on the same inspection report. Two distinct chemical-handling violations in a single visit means inspectors found more than one instance of chemicals placed where they could contaminate food or be misidentified by kitchen staff.
The food not cooked to minimum temperature citation compounds the unapproved sourcing problem. Undercooked food from a verified, inspected supplier is dangerous. Undercooked food from an unknown source, with no documentation of what it is or where it came from, is a different category of risk.
Inspectors also cited inadequate handwashing by food employees, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, food in poor condition or adulterated, and the absence of a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked menu items. The intermediate violations included improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, inadequate cooling equipment, single-use items being reused, inadequate ventilation and lighting, and improper use of wiping cloths.
What These Violations Mean
The unapproved food source violation is not a paperwork problem. When food enters a restaurant outside the regulated supply chain, there is no inspection record, no certificate of origin, and no mechanism for a health department to issue a recall if illness is reported. Listeria and Salmonella contamination have both been traced to uninspected supply channels in past outbreak investigations nationally.
The undercooking violation means food reached customers without reaching the internal temperatures required to kill pathogens. Salmonella survives in poultry below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. At a facility where the food's origin is already unknown, an undercooking citation means inspectors found evidence that whatever was being served may not have been rendered safe.
Two separate chemical violations in one inspection visit point to a systemic problem, not an oversight. Improperly stored or unlabeled chemicals near food preparation areas create acute poisoning risk. A kitchen worker who cannot identify a chemical container cannot make a safe decision about where to store it or whether it has contaminated a surface.
The sewage and wastewater disposal citation rounds out a picture of a facility where multiple independent systems, food sourcing, cooking temperatures, chemical storage, and waste management, were all found deficient on the same day.
The Longer Record
Rey's Pizza #6: Inspection Pattern, 2023-2026
The April 28 inspection was the 25th on record for this location. Across those 25 inspections, state records show 287 total violations. The facility has never been emergency-closed.
Seven of the eight most recent inspections with available violation data produced high-severity citations. The single exception was August 19, 2025, which recorded zero high or intermediate violations, sandwiched between an August 13, 2025 inspection that found 11 high-severity violations and a February 2026 visit that found 2 more.
The August 2025 pattern is notable. Eleven high-severity violations on August 13 were followed six days later by a clean inspection. That sequence is consistent with a facility that corrects violations for a follow-up visit and then reverts. The February 2026 inspection found high-severity violations again. The April 2026 inspection found eight.
The facility has accumulated high-severity citations in at least six consecutive inspection cycles going back to February 2023. The categories overlap across years: food handling, temperature control, and surface sanitation appear repeatedly in the record.
Rey's Pizza #6 was not closed after the April 28 inspection. It was open for business.