HIGH SPRINGS, FL. Back in February 2026, a state inspector walked into Shree Hanumanji Inc, a convenience store with a deli counter on the edge of Gilchrist County, and found the person in charge unable to correctly answer questions about the store's own employee health policy. That finding, alongside 11 others, landed the store a 12-violation inspection report dated February 18.
What Inspectors Found
The most pointed finding involved the person in charge directly. The inspector noted that the person in charge "incorrectly responded to questions relating to their employee health policy," and separately, that the store "could not provide employee health reporting responsibilities in a verifiable manner." Those are two distinct failures around the same subject, both flagged as priority foundation violations.
A third priority foundation violation involved a bottle of degreaser in the ware washing area that was not labeled. That one was a repeat, meaning inspectors had cited the same problem at this location before.
In the deli area, the inspector found that a squeeze bottle of hot sauce was not identified, the microwave had not been cleaned at the required 24-hour interval, and a food employee was working without a proper beard net or covering. Single-use food trays in both the deli and back room were stored outside their protective sleeves on open shelving.
The inspector also noted heavy dust buildup on overhead menu monitors in the deli area and, in the back room, a men's restroom door missing a self-closing mechanism. Out front, the retail area had a visible gap between the double front doors that let daylight through, an opening that could allow insects or rodents inside.
One more finding from the deli: the store's own time-temperature control sheet, which is supposed to track how long food sits without refrigeration, was missing a start time. The inspector noted the time was entered on the sheet during the inspection.
What These Violations Mean
The two employee health policy violations carry real weight for anyone who buys food from the deli counter. When a person in charge cannot correctly explain how sick employees are supposed to report illness, or when a store cannot show documentation that staff understand those responsibilities, the gap is not administrative. It is a direct route for a sick employee to handle food without any system catching it first.
The unlabeled degreaser bottle is a different kind of hazard. Toxic cleaning chemicals stored in unmarked containers in a food-handling area create the risk of accidental use on food-contact surfaces, or worse, confusion about what a bottle contains. The fact that this was a repeat violation, not a first-time oversight, means the store had been told to fix it before and had not done so by the time the February inspector arrived.
The missing start time on the time-temperature control sheet matters because that sheet is the store's own plan for tracking how long deli food sits at room temperature. Without a recorded start time, there is no way to know whether food has been sitting for 30 minutes or four hours.
The Longer Record
The February 2026 inspection was not the first time this store drew scrutiny. In December 2025, inspectors found 13 violations, two of them repeats, and the outcome was listed as "Product Re-inspection Required," a more serious disposition than the February result. That December visit came roughly two months before the February inspection.
Before that, in November 2024, the store was inspected under a more serious flag: "Operating Without a Valid Food Permit." That inspection turned up eight violations, including one repeat. The store ultimately met sanitation requirements on that visit, the same outcome as February.
The January 2026 focused inspection, a narrower review, came back clean with zero violations. But the pattern across the broader record shows a store that cycles between clean focused visits and more problematic full inspections, with repeat violations appearing across multiple rounds.
The unlabeled toxic chemical was flagged as a repeat in February 2026. Inspectors had documented violations in the same categories across at least three consecutive inspection cycles going back to late 2024.
What Was and Was Not Fixed
Several violations were corrected on the spot during the February inspection. The degreaser bottle was labeled before the inspector left. The hot sauce squeeze bottle was labeled. The time-temperature control sheet had a start time entered while the inspector was still on site. The microwave was cleaned and sanitized during the visit.
What was not corrected on site was the gap in the front doors, the missing self-closing restroom door mechanism, the single-use trays stored outside their packaging, the dust on the menu monitors, and the beard restraint issue. The employee health policy failures, both the inability to answer questions and the lack of verifiable documentation, were also left unresolved at the close of the inspection.