KISSIMMEE, FL. State inspectors walked into Sid's American Kitchen / Los Amigos on Westgate Boulevard on May 14, 2026, and found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means no government inspector ever checked that food for Listeria, Salmonella, or any other pathogen before it reached customers' plates.
That was one of seven high-severity violations documented that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The inspection record lists no person in charge present or performing duties at the time of the visit. CDC data cited in the violation report links the absence of active managerial control to three times as many critical violations at a given facility.
The handwashing infrastructure was also cited as inadequate. Without functioning handwashing stations, the entire chain of hygiene that separates food preparation from contamination breaks down.
Two violations addressed illness directly. Inspectors cited the facility for having no written employee health policy and for employees not reporting symptoms of illness. Those two failures together describe a kitchen where a worker could be sick with Norovirus and there would be no formal requirement to stay home, no policy to consult, and no system to catch it.
Food contact surfaces were cited as not properly cleaned or sanitized. The intermediate violations added improper sewage or wastewater disposal and multi-use utensils not properly cleaned.
What These Violations Mean
The food sourcing violation is the one that most limits any response if someone gets sick. When food enters a kitchen from an unapproved or unknown supplier, it has bypassed USDA and FDA inspection checkpoints. If a customer reports an illness, investigators have no supply chain to trace, no lot numbers to pull, no distributor to contact. The food simply arrived from somewhere, and no one certified it was safe.
The employee illness violations compound that risk in a specific way. Norovirus is responsible for roughly 20 million illnesses in the United States each year, and food workers are a primary transmission route. A written health policy is the mechanism that keeps a symptomatic employee out of the kitchen. Without one, and without a reporting requirement, the decision of whether to come to work sick is left entirely to the individual worker.
Improper sewage disposal is not a paperwork problem. Raw sewage carries fecal pathogens. When wastewater is not properly contained and removed, those pathogens can spread across surfaces throughout the facility, including surfaces that contact food.
The handwashing deficiency ties all of it together. If the infrastructure for hand hygiene does not exist or does not function, every other food safety practice in the kitchen is undermined.
The Longer Record
The May 14 inspection was not an outlier. The facility has 16 inspections on record and has accumulated 97 total violations across that history, with no prior emergency closures.
The most direct comparison is December 18, 2024, when inspectors documented seven high-severity violations and three intermediate violations, the same high-severity count as the most recent inspection. That visit was followed by a December 26, 2024 inspection showing two high-severity violations and one intermediate, then an inspection on May 19, 2025 with four high-severity violations. By November 2025, the numbers had dropped, with two high-severity violations on November 7 and one on November 12. The December 3, 2025 inspection showed zero violations in either category.
That clean inspection makes the May 2026 findings harder to explain as a slow drift. The facility went from a zero-violation inspection in December 2025 to seven high-severity violations five months later.
The pattern across the full record shows the facility cycling through periods of compliance and periods of serious violations. The December 2024 inspection and the May 2026 inspection are the two worst on record, and they share an identical high-severity violation count. The categories overlap as well: food sourcing, illness policy, and sanitation failures have appeared across multiple inspection cycles.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure authority is triggered when inspectors determine that conditions pose an immediate threat to public health. Seven high-severity violations at Sid's American Kitchen on May 14 did not meet that threshold, according to the state's disposition of the inspection.
The facility's 97 cumulative violations across 16 inspections have never resulted in an emergency closure.
As of the May 14 inspection, the restaurant on Westgate Boulevard remained open for business.