Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares
130 W Ruby St, Tavares, FL 32778
Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares, FL has 6 FDACS food safety inspections on record with 13 violations and 3 stop-sale or stop-use enforcement actions.
Last inspected FDACS: February 20, 2026
Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares: FDACS Inspection History (6)
Inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), which oversees grocery stores, convenience stores, bakeries, food manufacturers, mobile vendors, and vending machines.
— 5 inspections
— Focused Inspection· 1 stop-sale order· Focused Inspection
Comments: Check-Back release issued for Stop Use Order placed on December 10, 2025 for brewing or holding non-heat treated coffee at
temperatures above 41 degrees F. Inspector verified the establishment is now brewing and holding non-heat treated coffee under
proper refrigeration at 41 degrees F or below at all times.
This visit is associated with Request # 5151481.
Stop-Sale Orders & Supplemental Actions
STOP USE ORDER
Reason: FS 500; FAC 5K-4 Violation of Florida Food Law.* Safe Food and Water: Special process approval obtained for
processing method.
Lot: Number of Packages:
Quantity: Size of Packages: · Total Weight:
Disposition: Equipment was obtained, repaired or replaced, checked, and released.
— Focused Inspection - Check-back Needed· Re-Inspection Required
Comments: This Focused Inspection is being conducted offsite to ensure required and/or requested documentation has been received from
the food establishment.
The original Stop-Use Order issued on 12/10/2025 for brewing or holding non-heat treated coffee at temperatures above 41
degrees F. remains in effect. Food establishment can visit https://foodpermit.fdacs.gov or contact the Business Center at (850)
245-5520 when corrections have been made and/or when required documents have been obtained to request food safety
inspector visit for written release of product and/or equipment. Failure to comply with the request for written release may or will
result in Administrative Action.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
— Focused Inspection· Focused Inspection
Comments: Establishment was given 30 days to install a plumbed handwashing sink in the food processing area on 12/10/2025. Establishment
was granted an additional 10 day extension on 01/14/2026 due to unforeseen circumstances. Inspector has verified establishment
has installed a plumbed handwashing sink in the processing area.
This check-back inspection conducted to verify compliance of food safety citations observed during previous inspection.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
— Focused Inspection· Focused Inspection
Comments: This focused inspection was conducted to verify installation of a plumbed handwashing sink in processing area. Establishment was
given 30 days on 12/10/2025 to complete installation. Person in charge does have the equipment on site, and indicates plumber
was scheduled to complete installation today, but will be completing installation tomorrow, 01/15/2026.
Establishment is granted an additional 10 days to complete installation of plumbed handwashing sink. Failure to do so may or will
result in administrative action.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
— Focused Inspection - Check-back Needed· Re-Inspection Required
Comments: This Focused Inspection is being conducted offsite to document a verbal conversation to help assist the food establishment with
compliance of recent food safety observations and continuing issues.
Establishment was given 30 days to install a plumbed handwashing sink in the food processing area on 12/10/2025. The person in
charge indicated that a plumber is scheduled to install handwashing sink on 01/14/2026. Inspector will follow up on or about that
date.
The original Stop-Use Order issued on 12/10/2025 for brewing or holding non-heat treated coffee at temperatures above 41
degrees F. remains in effect. Food establishment can visit https://foodpermit.fdacs.gov or contact the Business Center at (850)
245-5520 when corrections have been made and/or when required documents have been obtained to request food safety
inspector visit for written release of product and/or equipment. Failure to comply with the request for written release may or will
result in Administrative Action.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
— 1 inspection
— Met Sanitation Inspection Requirements - Check Back Needed· 13 violations· 2 stop-sale orders· Met Requirements
Comments: When citations have been corrected and initialed, an electronic copy of the completed report may be emailed to
[email protected].
Please note each observation that has been corrected.
Stop Use Order issued on 12/10/2025 for brewing or holding non-heat treated coffee at temperatures above 41 degrees F. Food
establishment can visit https://foodpermit.fdacs.gov or contact the Business Center at (850) 245-5520 when corrections have
been made and/or when required documents have been obtained to request food safety inspector visit for written release of
equipment. Failure to comply with the request for written release may or will result in Administrative Action.
Establishment is given 30 days to install a plumbed handwashing sink.
Guidance for Written Procedures for the Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events, Cooling Foods Handout, Dishwashing
Procedures, Warewash Sink Guide, and Food Allergy Awareness handout provided.
Risk-Based Violations
4-501.11
Chemical sanitizer used in a sanitizing solution for a manual or mechanical
operation does not meet the criteria specified for sanitizers, is not used in accordance with the
EPA-registered manufacturer's label use instructions, or chlorine solution does not have a minimum
temperature based on the concentration and pH of the solution as listed: concentration 25-49 MG/L, pH 10
or less and minimum water temperature 120°F; concentration 50-99 MG/L, pH 10 or less and minimum
water temperature 100°F or pH 8 or less and minimum water temperature 75°F; concentration 100 MG/L,
pH 10 or less and minimum water temperature 55°F. 4-501.114(A) PP
Back Room: Solution made using bleach to sanitize clean equipment and utensils
measured at 10 parts per million when tested with inspector test strips in the 3 compartment sink. COS:
Bleach was added to increase the sanitizer concentration to the appropriate level and tested with inspector
test strips.
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2-501.11
Establishment does not have written procedures for employees to follow when
responding to an event that involves the discharge of vomitus or diarrhea onto surfaces at the food
establishment, or procedures do not address specific actions employees must take to minimize the spread
of contamination and the exposure of employees, consumers, food, and surfaces to vomitus or fecal
matter. 2-501.11 PfPf
Establishment does have written procedures in regards to the clean up of vomitus or
diarrhea event in the food establishment, but it is missing the following items: Segregation of the affected
area; cleaning and sanitizing exposed food equipment and utensils. Industry handout provided.
5-203.11
At least one handwashing sink, or number of handwashing sinks necessary for their
convenient use by employees, not provided in food preparation, food dispensing or warewashing area, or
for a toilet room. 5-203.11 PfPf
There is no plumbed handwashing sink in processing areas of food establishment.
Establishment is utilizing a mobile handwashing sink unit as the only handwashing sink. See Comments.
Good Retail Practice Violations
30
Special process approval not obtained from the Florida Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services before smoking food as a method of preservation, curing food, using food
additives or adding components as a method of preservation or to render a food non-time/temperature
control for safety, packaging time/temperature control for safety food using a reduced oxygen method,
operating a molluscan shellfish life-support system, custom processing animals, or sprouting seeds or
beans. 5K-4.0050(1)
Back Room: Establishment is making non-heat treated cold brew coffee onsite and storing
it at ambient room temperature on shelf in back room without first receiving a special process approval
from Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Stop Use Oder and See Stop Sale
Order and Release. Non-heat treated cold brew coffee was voluntarily discarded.
4-204.11
Temperature measuring device sensor not located to measure the air temperature
or a simulated product temperature in the warmest part of a mechanically refrigerated unit or in the coolest
part of a hot food storage unit; cold or hot holding equipment used for time/temperature control for safety
food not equipped with at least one integral or permanently affixed temperature measuring device that is
located to allow easy viewing of the temperature display; or temperature measuring device not designed
to be easily readable. 4-204.112(A), (B) and (D)
Back Room: No ambient thermometer provided in black refrigerator holding
time/temperature control for safety dairy foods near warewashing sink.
4-203.11
Food temperature measuring device scaled only in Celsius or dually scaled in
Celsius and Fahrenheit not accurate to ± 1°C in the intended range of use; or if scaled only in Fahrenheit,
not accurate to ± 2°F in the intended range of use. 4-203.11 Pf
Service Area: Establishment's thin tipped probe thermometer is in disrepair.
Establishment's thin tipped probe thermometer read 38 degrees F when placed in an ice slurry bath with
inspector's thermometers which read 32.0 degrees F and 32.5 degrees F.
2-302.11
Food employee fingernails not kept trimmed, filed, and maintained so the edges
and surfaces are cleanable and not rough. Fingernail polish or artificial fingernails not covered by intact
gloves when working with exposed food. 2-302.11 Pf
Service Area: Employee with painted nails not wearing gloves while working with exposed
foods to make brewed coffee drinks.
2-303.11
Food employee wearing jewelry, other than a plain ring such as a wedding band, on
their arm or hand while preparing food. 2-303.11
Service Area: Employee wearing bracelet on left arm when working with exposed foods to
make brewed coffee drinks.
3-304.14(B)
Cloths in-use for wiping counters and other equipment surfaces not held between
uses in a chemical sanitizer solution at a proper concentration as specified in the Food Code. 3-304.14(B)
(1)
Service Area: Wet wiping cloth used to wipe food contact area of portafilter for espresso
machine is stored on counter.
4-601.11(C)
Nonfood-contact surface of equipment has an accumulation of dust, dirt, food
residue or other debris. 4-601.11(C)
Service Area: There is a build up of dust and food debris on wire rack shelving holding
packaged food and single use items on bottom of service counter near wall.
5-205.15(B)
Plumbing system not maintained in good repair. 5-205.15(B)
Back Room: Faucet for warewashing sink leaks when turned off and not in use.
5-203.14
Plumbing system not installed to preclude backflow of a solid, liquid, or gas
contaminant into the water supply system at each point of use, including on a hose bibb, by providing an
air gap or installation of an approved backflow prevention device. 5-203.14 Pf
Back Room: No air gap provided at plumbed warewashiing sink.
6-501.12
Physical facilities not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean, or
cleaning not done during periods when the least amount of food is exposed such as after closing. 6-501.12
Service Area: There is a build up of dust and old food debris on walls and on floor under
table and behind ice machine.
Stop-Sale Orders & Supplemental Actions
STOP SALE ORDER AND RELEASE
Reason: FS 500; FAC 5K-4 Violation of Florida Food Law.* Safe Food and Water: Special process approval obtained for
processing method.
Lot: Number of Packages:
Quantity: Size of Packages: · Total Weight:
Disposition: Product was voluntarily destroyed by food establishment management and witnessed by inspector.
STOP USE ORDER
Reason: FS 500; FAC 5K-4 Violation of Florida Food Law.* Safe Food and Water: Special process approval obtained for
processing method.
Comments: To request a Food Safety Inspector visit for written release when appropriate documentation has been obtained, contact the
Business Center at (850) 245-5520 or [email protected].
Print Date: 12/10/2025
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When the department or its duly authorized agent finds, or has probable cause to believe, that any food or food-processing equipment is in
violation of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter so as to be dangerous, unwholesome, fraudulent, or insanitary within the
meaning of this chapter, an agent of the department may issue and enforce a stop-sale, stop-use, removal, or hold order, which order gives
notice that such article or processing equipment is, or is suspected of being, in violation and has been detained or embargoed and which order
warns all persons not to remove, use, or dispose of such article or processing equipment by sale or otherwise until permission for removal, use,
or disposal is given by the department or the court. It is unlawful for any person to remove, use, or dispose of such detained or embargoed
article or processing equipment by sale or otherwise without such permission in accordance with 500.172 (1) Florida Statutes.
Release - Other
The Food Establishment voluntarily agrees to release the products listed in the stop-sale order(s) on page(s) 1 for destruction. The Food
Establishment will not hold the Department liable for any lost revenue or income as a result of the destruction.
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Signature of Food Establishment Representative
AN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING IS AVAILABLE FOR ALL ORDERS, NOTICES, AND REPORTS IN THIS
SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT
If you wish to contest the Department's action, you have the right to request an administrative hearing to be conducted in accordance with
Sections 120.569 and 120.57, Florida Statutes and to be represented by counsel or other qualified representative. Your request for hearing must
contain:
1. Your name, address, and telephone number, and facsimile number (if any).
2. The name, address, and telephone number, and facsimile number of your attorney or qualified representative (if any) upon whom service of
pleadings and other papers shall be made.
3. A statement that you are requesting an administrative hearing and dispute the material facts alleged by the department, in which case you
must identify the material facts that are in dispute (formal hearing), or that you request an administrative hearing and that you do not dispute the
facts alleged by the department (informal hearing).
4. A statement of when (date) you received the Notice and the file number of this Notice.
Your request for a hearing must be received at the address shown on this Notice within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of this
Notice. If you fail to obtain a Release from this Notice or fail to request an administrative hearing within the twenty-one (21) day
deadline you waive your right to a hearing and the Department may enter a Final Order imposing up to the maximum penalties as authorized by
Florida Law.
HEARING WAIVER AND WAIVER OF RIGHTS
Hillary Perry
I, _____________________________________________________
the person in charge of Nautilus Coffee Company hereby waive a notice
and a hearing as provided in Chapter 120, Florida Statutes and waive all rights as provided on the last page of this report.
____________________________________________
(Signature)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I acknowledge receipt of a copy of this document.
(Signature of FDACS Representative)
(Signature of Representative)
ALLISON LAURICELLA, ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALIST II
HILLARY PERRY, OWNER
Print Name and Title
FDACS-14325 Rev. 07/13
Print Date: 12/10/2025
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Lot: Number of Packages:
Quantity: Size of Packages: · Total Weight:
Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares: Stop-Sale & Stop-Use Orders (3)
Products placed under stop-sale or stop-use order by FDACS inspectors. Stop-sale orders prohibit the sale of food that is adulterated, mislabeled, or poses a health risk.
| Date | Order Type | Product | Brand/Lot | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STOP USE ORDER | — | Number of Packages: | FS 500; FAC 5K-4 Violation of Florida Food Law.* Safe Food and Water: Special process approval obtained for processing m… | |
| STOP SALE ORDER AND RELEASE | — | Number of Packages: | FS 500; FAC 5K-4 Violation of Florida Food Law.* Safe Food and Water: Special process approval obtained for processing m… | |
| STOP USE ORDER | — | Number of Packages: | FS 500; FAC 5K-4 Violation of Florida Food Law.* Safe Food and Water: Special process approval obtained for processing m… |
Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares: Frequently Asked Questions
- When was Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares last inspected?
- Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares was last inspected by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) on February 20, 2026. Inspection type: Focused Inspection.
- How many inspections has Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares had?
- Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares has 6 FDACS food safety inspection(s) on record from January 2022 to present.
- What did the most recent FDACS inspection of Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares find?
- Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares was most recently inspected by FDACS on February 20, 2026 (Focused Inspection).
- Has Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares had any stop-sale or stop-use orders?
- Yes, Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares has 3 stop-sale or stop-use enforcement action(s) on record with Florida FDACS. Most affected products were released after correction.
- What are the most common violations at Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares?
- The most frequently cited FDACS violations at Nautilus Coffee Company in Tavares are: 5-203.11: At least one handwashing sink, or number of handwashing sinks necessary for their convenient use by employees, not provided in food preparation, food dispensing or warewashing area, or for a toilet room. 5-203.11 Pf; 4-501.11: Chemical sanitizer used in a sanitizing solution for a manual or mechanical operation does not meet the criteria specified for sanitizers, is not used in accordance with the EPA-registered manufacturer's label use instructions, or chlorine solution does not have a minimum temperature based on the concentration and pH of the solution as listed: concentration 25-49 MG/L, pH 10 or less and minimum water temperature 120°F; concentration 50-99 MG/L, pH 10 or less and minimum water temperature 100°F or pH 8 or less and minimum water temperature 75°F; concentration 100 MG/L, pH 10 or less and minimum water temperature 55°F. 4-501.114(A) P; 2-501.11: Establishment does not have written procedures for employees to follow when responding to an event that involves the discharge of vomitus or diarrhea onto surfaces at the food establishment, or procedures do not address specific actions employees must take to minimize the spread of contamination and the exposure of employees, consumers, food, and surfaces to vomitus or fecal matter. 2-501.11 Pf.
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