OCOEE, FL. Back in May 2026, state inspectors walked into Takumi Sushi & Ramen Inc. on West Colonial Drive and found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means no one can trace where that fish or meat came from if a customer gets sick.
That was one of six high-severity violations documented on May 14. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source violation is particularly acute at a sushi restaurant, where raw fish is a menu centerpiece. Inspectors also cited staff for demonstrating no allergen awareness, a finding that matters at a Japanese restaurant where soy, shellfish, and fish are routine ingredients in dishes that may not obviously contain them.
Toxic chemicals were improperly stored or labeled somewhere in the facility. Food contact surfaces, the cutting boards, prep tables, and counters that touch every dish before it reaches a customer, were not properly cleaned or sanitized.
The menu at Takumi includes raw fish served as sushi and sashimi, but inspectors found no consumer advisory posted to inform diners of the risk. Customers who are elderly, pregnant, or immunocompromised have no way of knowing that warning was missing.
Employees were also cited for improper handwashing technique. Multi-use utensils were not properly cleaned, and ventilation and lighting were inadequate.
What These Violations Mean
Food from an unapproved or unknown source means the fish and other ingredients at Takumi in May bypassed the federal inspection chain entirely. If a customer became ill, there would be no supplier records to trace. Listeria and Salmonella are the documented risks in uninspected product, and at a raw-fish restaurant, the exposure is direct.
The allergen awareness violation is a separate and immediate danger. Staff who cannot identify allergens in their own dishes cannot warn a customer with a shellfish or soy allergy before that person orders. Food allergies send roughly 30,000 Americans to emergency rooms each year, and a single uninformed interaction between a server and a customer can trigger that outcome.
Improperly cleaned food contact surfaces create a transfer route for bacteria between every item prepared on them. At a sushi bar, where raw protein sits directly on prep surfaces, that risk is compounded. Multi-use utensils that are not properly cleaned develop bacterial biofilms within 24 hours, films that resist standard cleaning once established.
The chemical storage violation adds a different category of risk entirely. Improperly labeled or stored chemicals near food can contaminate ingredients through accidental contact or mislabeling. That is not a theoretical risk; it is the reason health codes require strict physical separation of cleaning products from food preparation areas.
The Longer Record
The May 2026 inspection was not a bad day at an otherwise clean restaurant. State records show Takumi Sushi & Ramen has been inspected 24 times and has accumulated 327 total violations across that history.
The two most recent prior inspections, both in November 2025, each produced 11 high-severity violations and 4 intermediate violations. The inspection before that, in January 2025, also produced 11 high-severity violations. The pattern going back to 2023 is consistent: high-severity counts in the single digits or above on nearly every visit, with a brief dip to 2 high violations in June 2023 sandwiched between inspections that found 8, 9, and 10.
The restaurant has never been emergency-closed in its 24 inspections on record. That means inspectors have documented high-severity violations on visit after visit, including three consecutive inspections with 11 high-severity findings, and the facility has continued operating each time.
The May 2026 inspection, with its 6 high-severity violations, was actually lower than the three preceding it. Whether that represents improvement or simply a different day's findings is a question the record alone cannot answer.
Still Open
As of the May 14 inspection, Takumi Sushi & Ramen remained open for business on West Colonial Drive in Ocoee.
Customers who ate there that month had no way of knowing that the staff handling their food had been cited for improper handwashing technique, that the surfaces their sushi was prepared on were not properly sanitized, or that the ingredients on their plates may have come from a supplier no federal inspector had ever reviewed.
The restaurant has 327 violations on record across 24 inspections and has never been ordered to close.