SEMINOLE COUNTY, FL. Inspectors visiting Bruder Cerveza Brewery Restaurant on Oviedo Mall Boulevard last week found that the facility lacked adequate handwashing infrastructure entirely, while simultaneously sourcing food from unapproved suppliers and failing to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish, all in a single visit that produced 9 high-severity violations.
That was one of twelve Seminole County restaurants to accumulate two or more high-severity violations during the week of October 5 through October 11, 2026, across 68 inspections at 60 facilities. Nine of those twelve restaurants drew 7 or more high-severity citations each.
The Week's Worst Performers
F&D Cantina on Colonial Townpark in Lake Mary and New Hong Kong on SR 434 in Altamonte Springs each drew 9 high-severity violations, tying Bruder Cerveza for the week's highest count. F&D Cantina's citations included a person in charge absent or not performing duties, employees not reporting illness symptoms, improper handwashing technique, and failure to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish. Toxic chemicals were improperly stored or labeled, and improperly identified, producing two separate high-severity citations from the same underlying problem.
New Hong Kong's 9 violations included no employee health policy, food from unapproved or unknown sources, inadequate shell stock identification records for shellfish, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized. No person in charge was present or performing duties during the inspection.
Nawabi Hyderabad House Biryani Place on West Lake Mary Boulevard collected 8 high-severity violations, including food not cooked to required minimum temperature and two separate toxic chemical citations alongside the failure to report illness symptoms. Inspectors also noted inadequate handwashing and improper handwashing technique as distinct violations, meaning the facility failed both on access and on execution.
Moliendo Cafe on US Highway 17-92 in Longwood drew 8 high-severity violations including food not cooked to required minimum temperature, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned, and the same double citation for toxic chemicals seen at Nawabi and F&D Cantina. No consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods was posted.
Royal Rasoi on Lake Emma Road in Lake Mary produced 8 high-severity violations. No person in charge was present, no employee health policy existed, employees were not reporting illness symptoms, and food was sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers. Food was also not cooked to required minimum temperature, and toxic chemicals were improperly stored.
Keller's Bar-B-Q on SR 434 in Altamonte Springs drew 8 high-severity violations including food in poor condition or adulterated, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, and no allergen awareness demonstrated by staff. That last citation carries particular weight: food allergies send 30,000 Americans to emergency rooms annually, and a barbecue operation handling multiple proteins and sauces presents significant cross-contact risk.
Dragon City on Winter Springs Boulevard in Oviedo accumulated 8 high-severity violations including food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards, inadequate shell stock identification records, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, and improper use of time as a public health control.
NY Best Pizza on South Westmonte Drive in Altamonte Springs drew 7 high-severity violations. Food from unapproved or unknown sources appeared alongside no person in charge, no employee health policy, and food contact surfaces not properly cleaned. No consumer advisory was posted.
Lees Palace on Rinehart Road in Lake Mary collected 7 high-severity violations including food from unapproved sources and toxic chemicals improperly stored. Inspectors also cited staff for reusing single-use items, a practice that creates contamination pathways that proper single-use protocols are specifically designed to prevent.
Jerry's Pizza and Subs on SR 436 in Altamonte Springs drew 7 high-severity violations including food from unapproved sources, food in poor condition or adulterated, food not cooked to required minimum temperature, toxic substances improperly identified or stored, and no allergen awareness demonstrated. Multi-use utensils were also not properly cleaned.
Oaks on Winter Springs Boulevard drew 2 high-severity violations, both for food contact surfaces not properly cleaned and no consumer advisory posted.
What These Violations Mean
The single most repeated high-severity violation this week across Seminole County was improper handwashing technique, cited at Nawabi Hyderabad House, NY Best Pizza, F&D Cantina, New Hong Kong, Bruder Cerveza, Moliendo Cafe, Royal Rasoi, Keller's Bar-B-Q, Dragon City, Lees Palace, and Jerry's Pizza. Improper technique means pathogens remain on hands even when a worker makes an attempt to wash. The attempt itself creates a false sense of cleanliness that can be more dangerous than no attempt at all.
Employees not reporting illness symptoms appeared at Nawabi, NY Best Pizza, F&D Cantina, New Hong Kong, Moliendo Cafe, Royal Rasoi, Dragon City, Lees Palace, and Jerry's Pizza. Sick food workers are the primary driver of multi-victim outbreaks. Norovirus, which causes the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States, spreads through exactly this pathway: an ill worker handles food, no policy requires them to report symptoms or stay home, and customers are exposed before anyone knows there is a problem.
Food from unapproved or unknown sources was cited at NY Best Pizza, New Hong Kong, Bruder Cerveza, Royal Rasoi, Lees Palace, and Jerry's Pizza. The practical consequence is traceability. When a customer gets sick and investigators need to trace the source, food that bypassed USDA and FDA inspection has no paper trail. There is no way to identify a contaminated lot, issue a recall, or determine how many other restaurants received the same product.
Toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled appeared at Nawabi, F&D Cantina, Moliendo Cafe, Royal Rasoi, Keller's Bar-B-Q, and Lees Palace. Improperly stored chemicals near food preparation areas create acute poisoning risk, not just theoretical long-term exposure. Mislabeled chemicals are particularly dangerous because staff cannot identify what they are handling or what contamination has occurred.
The Longer Record
The data does not include prior inspection counts for the twelve facilities featured this week, which limits the ability to place this week's findings in a longer historical context. What the week's record does show is a pattern of simultaneous failures across multiple independent categories at the same facilities, which is itself significant.
F&D Cantina, New Hong Kong, and Bruder Cerveza each reached 9 high-severity violations in a single inspection. Reaching that threshold requires failures in food sourcing, illness reporting, handwashing, surface sanitation, and chemical storage to all exist at the same time. These are not isolated oversights. They are concurrent breakdowns across the core systems that food safety depends on.
Royal Rasoi accumulated violations in five distinct high-severity categories, including absent management, no health policy, unreported illness, unapproved food sources, and improper cooking temperatures. Each of those categories represents a separate system failure. When all five appear in one inspection, the record suggests the problems are structural rather than situational.
Keller's Bar-B-Q and Jerry's Pizza each drew no allergen awareness citations alongside their other high-severity findings. Both also had food not cooked to required minimum temperatures. Of the twelve facilities cited this week, those two are the only ones where allergen risk and undercooking appeared together, a combination that creates simultaneous risk for customers with food allergies and customers without them.
Dragon City's citation for food contaminated by chemical, physical, or biological hazards, combined with inadequate shell stock records for shellfish and improper time-as-public-health-control procedures, represents three distinct contamination pathways active in the same kitchen during the same inspection. The shellfish traceability violation alone means that if a customer became ill from shellfish at Dragon City this week, investigators would have no record of where that shellfish came from.
