ORLANDO, FL. A state inspector walked into Spicy and Juicy Crab on West Colonial Drive on May 5 and found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers sitting alongside six other serious violations, including failures in parasite destruction procedures that left customers at risk of ingesting live parasites in fish or pork. The restaurant was not closed.
The facility logged six high-severity violations and one intermediate violation during that single visit. Under Florida's inspection framework, high-severity violations are those most directly linked to foodborne illness outbreaks.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation is among the most serious an inspector can document. When food arrives from an unapproved or unknown supplier, it has bypassed USDA and FDA safety inspections entirely. If a customer becomes sick, investigators have no supply chain to trace.
The parasite destruction failure compounds that risk. Seafood restaurants are required to follow specific freezing or cooking protocols to kill parasites, including Anisakis in fish and Trichinella in pork. The inspector found those procedures were not being followed.
Food contact surfaces, including cutting boards and prep tables, were not properly cleaned or sanitized. That creates a direct transfer route for bacteria from raw seafood to any food prepared on the same surface afterward.
Inspectors also found that food was not being cooked to required minimum internal temperatures, and that employees were using improper handwashing technique. Both are direct pathways for pathogens to reach a customer's plate.
The restaurant had no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked items, meaning diners with compromised immune systems, elderly customers, pregnant women, and young children had no way to know they were ordering food that carried elevated risk.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of unapproved food sourcing and failed parasite destruction procedures is particularly serious in a seafood-focused restaurant. Fish served without proper parasite destruction can harbor Anisakis roundworms, which cause severe abdominal pain and can require surgical removal. Customers who ordered fish dishes at Spicy and Juicy Crab on or before May 5 had no way of knowing those protocols had broken down.
Undercooking violations at a facility already handling food from unknown sources doubles the exposure window. When inspectors cannot verify where food came from and also find it is not being cooked to safe temperatures, the two failures reinforce each other. There is no safety net at either end of the process.
Improperly cleaned food contact surfaces are a primary mechanism for cross-contamination in commercial kitchens. Raw seafood residue on a cutting board that is not properly sanitized transfers directly to the next item prepared on that surface. At a crab and seafood restaurant, the volume of raw shellfish moving through the kitchen makes that failure especially consequential.
The absence of a consumer advisory may seem administrative by comparison, but it removes the last line of protection for the most vulnerable diners. A pregnant woman or an immunocompromised customer ordering from a menu with raw or undercooked options has a legal right to that warning. On May 5, it was not there.
The Longer Record
The May 2026 inspection was not an anomaly. State records show Spicy and Juicy Crab has accumulated 212 violations across 25 inspections on record. High-severity violations have appeared in nearly every inspection cycle documented.
The November 2025 inspection produced nine high-severity violations and one intermediate. The April 2025 cycle required two visits: the first, on April 8, produced eight high-severity violations; a follow-up on April 9 still showed two high-severity citations. The restaurant was not closed after either visit.
The pattern extends further back. Inspectors documented five high-severity violations in August 2023, four in January 2023, and three each in August 2024 and January 2024. The facility has not had a clean inspection in the records available.
The restaurant was emergency-closed once before, on March 24, 2021, for roach activity. It was allowed to reopen the same day. In the inspections that followed over the next five years, high-severity violations continued to appear at nearly every visit.
Still Open
State inspectors documented six high-severity violations at Spicy and Juicy Crab on May 5, 2026, including food from suppliers the state cannot trace, parasite destruction failures in a seafood kitchen, undercooked food, unsanitized food contact surfaces, and no warning posted for customers eating raw or undercooked items.
The restaurant was not closed.