TAMARAC, FL. An employee at Wings & More on NW 31st Avenue was not reporting symptoms of illness to management as of August 17, 2026, according to state inspection records. That single violation, which inspectors classify as an outbreak enabler, was one of seven high-severity citations documented that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The inspection also found that food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized, a direct pathway for bacterial transfer between raw and prepared foods. Inspectors further cited the restaurant for failing to post a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked menu items, leaving customers with no notice that certain dishes carry elevated risk.
No person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties at the time of the inspection. That finding sits at the top of the violation list for a reason: without active managerial oversight, the other eight violations become easier to understand.
Two intermediate violations rounded out the report. Multi-use utensils were not properly cleaned, and wiping cloths were being used improperly.
The Shellfish Problem
The citation for inadequate shell stock identification records is worth isolating. Wings & More was cited for failing to maintain proper documentation for shellfish, which includes oysters, clams, and mussels. Those are foods that are often consumed raw or only lightly cooked, and the tagging and record requirements exist specifically so that health officials can trace a contaminated batch back to its harvest location if customers get sick.
Without those records, that traceability disappears entirely.
The restaurant also had no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked foods. Any customer with a compromised immune system, or any elderly diner, pregnant woman, or child, had no written notice that certain items on the menu carry a higher risk of foodborne illness.
What These Violations Mean
The illness-reporting violation is the one that most directly threatened anyone who ate at Wings & More on or before August 17. Food workers are the primary transmission route for norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States. When an employee continues working while symptomatic and no reporting system catches it, every plate that worker handles becomes a potential exposure.
The handwashing violations compound that risk. Two separate citations at Wings & More covered this ground: employees were not washing their hands adequately, and those who did attempt to wash were using improper technique. Studies consistently show that incorrect handwashing technique leaves pathogens on hands even when a worker believes they have cleaned them. Paired with unsanitized food contact surfaces, those failures create overlapping contamination routes.
The improperly cleaned multi-use utensils add another layer. Bacterial biofilms can establish on utensil surfaces within 24 hours of inadequate cleaning. Those biofilms are resistant to routine wiping and can transfer bacteria to food even when the utensil looks clean to the eye. Wiping cloths used improperly, the second intermediate violation, are a known vehicle for spreading contamination across prep surfaces rather than removing it.
The Longer Record
The August 17 inspection was not an anomaly. State records show Wings & More has been inspected 33 times and has accumulated 248 total violations across that history. The restaurant was emergency-closed once before, in April 2017, for rodent activity. It reopened the following day.
The eight most recent inspections before August 17 tell a consistent story. The restaurant logged 8 high-severity violations in August 2025 and again in June 2025. It logged 6 high-severity violations in November 2025 and again in November 2024 and August 2024. The March 2025 inspection found 4 high-severity violations. Only two inspections in that stretch, May 2025 and the follow-up on August 18, 2026, came back with a single high-severity violation.
The August 18 follow-up inspection, conducted the day after the seven-violation report, found one remaining high-severity violation. That is an improvement on paper.
The restaurant was not closed after the August 17 inspection. It served customers that day, and the days before it, with an employee who was not reporting illness symptoms, with food contact surfaces that inspectors said were not properly sanitized, and with no manager present to catch any of it.
