PEMBROKE PARK, FL. State inspectors who visited Untoasted at 3121 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd. on August 11 found the restaurant was serving food from unapproved or unknown sources, a violation that means some of what customers ate that day had bypassed federal safety inspections entirely.
That was one of six high-severity violations documented in a single visit. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The shellfish violation compounds the sourcing problem. Inspectors cited inadequate shell stock identification records, meaning oysters, clams, or mussels served at the restaurant could not be traced back to a certified harvest site if a customer became ill.
The employee illness violations arrived as a pair. Inspectors found neither a written employee health policy nor evidence that workers were reporting illness symptoms. Together, those two failures mean there was no formal mechanism, on paper or in practice, to keep a sick employee out of the kitchen.
Inspectors also cited improper use of time as a public health control, which means food was being held in the temperature danger zone, between 41 and 135 degrees, without the documentation required to track how long it had been sitting. The restaurant had no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods, leaving customers with no warning that items on the menu carried elevated risk.
On the intermediate side, inspectors documented improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils that were not properly cleaned, and sanitizing procedures that did not meet state standards.
What These Violations Mean
Food from unapproved sources is not a paperwork problem. When food enters a restaurant outside the regulated supply chain, it has not been inspected for Listeria, Salmonella, or other pathogens at any point before it reaches a customer's plate. If someone gets sick, investigators have no supplier to contact and no lot number to trace.
The shellfish traceability failure sharpens that risk. Shellfish are among the highest-risk foods in any kitchen because they are often consumed raw or lightly cooked. The shell stock tag requirement exists precisely so that a single contaminated harvest can be identified and pulled before it sickens more people. Without those records at Untoasted, that chain breaks.
The paired illness violations, no health policy and employees not reporting symptoms, represent the most direct route from a sick worker to a sick customer. Norovirus, which causes the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurant settings, spreads through exactly this gap. A worker who does not know they are required to report symptoms, or works at a restaurant that has never told them to, has no reason to stay home.
The sewage disposal violation adds a separate contamination pathway. Improperly handled wastewater carries fecal bacteria. Combined with utensils that were not adequately cleaned and sanitizer applied at the wrong concentration, the inspection record on August 11 describes a kitchen where multiple contamination controls were failing at the same time.
The Longer Record
The August inspection was not an outlier. State records show Untoasted has accumulated 148 violations across 25 inspections on record, a figure that averages to nearly six violations per visit over the life of the facility.
The pattern of high-severity violations is consistent across years. In July 2023, inspectors cited five high-severity violations. In January 2025, they found six high-severity violations, the same count as August 2026. The June 2026 inspection, just two months before this one, produced three high-severity violations and two intermediate ones.
The restaurant has never been emergency-closed. Every inspection in the record, including the visits that produced five or six high-severity findings, ended with the facility remaining open.
What the record does not show is any sustained period of clean inspections. The January 2024 visit produced zero high-severity violations, and the September 2024 inspection found only one. Those cleaner visits are surrounded, before and after, by inspections with multiple serious citations. The improvement, when it appeared, did not hold.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure authority is reserved for conditions that pose an immediate, serious threat to public health. Inspectors exercised that authority at Untoasted zero times across 25 inspections.
After the August 11 visit, with six high-severity violations documented including food from an unapproved source, no illness reporting policy, untraceable shellfish, and improper sewage disposal, the restaurant continued serving customers.
