ORLANDO, FL. State inspectors visiting the Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport at 7550 Augusta National Dr. on May 20, 2026 found food in poor condition, inadequate handwashing facilities, and improper sewage disposal — six high-severity violations in a single visit — and left the hotel restaurant open.
The facility was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The food-quality citation is the most direct threat to anyone who ate at the hotel that day. Food flagged as being in poor condition, mislabeled, or adulterated can include items that are spoiled, contaminated, or stripped of the labeling that would identify what they contain or how long they have been stored.
Inspectors also cited the facility for not properly using time as a public health control. When a kitchen uses time rather than temperature to manage food safety, it relies on strict tracking of how long food has been in the temperature danger zone. Without that tracking, there is no way to know whether food served to guests had already been sitting long enough to allow dangerous bacterial growth.
The sewage disposal citation adds a separate layer of concern. Improper disposal of wastewater creates the possibility of fecal contamination reaching food-contact surfaces or food itself.
No person in charge was present or performing managerial duties during the inspection. That finding sat alongside every other violation on the report.
What These Violations Mean
The handwashing findings, taken together, describe a facility where proper hand hygiene was failing at two levels at once. Inadequate handwashing facilities means the physical infrastructure, sinks, soap, or accessible locations, was not sufficient to allow employees to wash their hands correctly. The separate citation for improper technique means that even when handwashing was attempted, it was not done in a way that removes pathogens.
Those two violations appearing on the same inspection report mean that contamination from employees' hands was a real possibility for any food prepared that day.
The absence of a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods is a violation that specifically harms the guests least able to protect themselves. Elderly diners, pregnant women, young children, and anyone with a compromised immune system rely on that disclosure to make informed choices. Without it, they have no way of knowing a dish carries elevated risk.
Inadequate cooling equipment is a structural problem, not a procedural one. A kitchen can train its staff to follow temperature protocols correctly, but if the equipment cannot hold food below 41 degrees, the protocols cannot be followed regardless of intent.
The Longer Record
The May 2026 inspection is not an outlier for this property. State records show 27 inspections on file for the Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport, with 193 total violations accumulated across that history. The facility has never been emergency-closed.
The pattern in recent years is consistent and specific. The December 2025 inspection produced seven high-severity and two intermediate violations. The April 2025 inspection produced six high-severity and two intermediate violations, the same count as the most recent visit. The August 2024 inspection produced five high-severity violations. The April 2024 inspection produced ten high-severity violations and one intermediate.
That is four consecutive inspection cycles, spanning roughly two years, each producing at least five high-severity violations.
The October 2022 inspection produced six high-severity and three intermediate violations. A follow-up inspection six days later, on November 2, 2022, produced one high-severity and one intermediate violation, suggesting corrections were made quickly when prompted. But the pattern in subsequent years shows the same categories of violations returning.
The sole clean inspection in this record, zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations, came in December 2021. Every inspection since has produced multiple high-severity citations.
Open for Business
The Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport sits less than a mile from Orlando International Airport. Guests checking in or out on May 20, 2026 had no way of knowing that inspectors had just cited the property for food in poor condition, two separate handwashing failures, improper sewage disposal, and the absence of any manager on duty.
The state did not close the facility.
Guests who ate at the hotel that day were not notified. The Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport, with 193 violations across 27 inspections and six high-severity citations on its most recent report, remained open.