Rodent poop next to clean pots and other South Florida restaurant issues

Food admin August 7, 2026 0 Comments

Rodent poop next to clean pots and other South Florida restaurant issues

Rodents, roaches, an ice cream giant and an annual inspection failure lowlight this week’s list of South Florida restaurants that failed inspection.

We don’t choose who gets inspected nor do we do the inspecting. Both are done by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, sometimes after customers file complaints.

Restaurants that are shut down must pass a re-inspection or callback inspection before reopening. The first of those are usually the next day, although some inspectors grant a same-day re-inspection.

In alphabetical order:

Foodeyez Caribbean Cuisine Corp., 6268 W. Sample Rd., Coral Springs

Routine inspection, 10 total violations, four high priority violations

Two roaches died behind front-counter refrigerators. Another two died next to a cookline cooler. Ten roaches partied behind a kitchen steam table.

Behind the cookline equipment, the floor had an “accumulation of food debris” and was “covered with standing water.”

The roaches disappeared later that day, allowing Foodeyez to pass a same-day re-inspection and open for Friday and Saturday business.

Haagen Dazs at Sawgrass Mills, 12801 W. Sunrise Blvd., Sunrise

Routine inspection, seven total violations, three high priority violations

Workers know how to lay the sticky traps under the three-compartment sink, but they apparently don’t know when to pick them up. If they had tossed them, the inspector wouldn’t have seen the 10 roaches that got caught and died there.

Under that same triple sink, four roaches crawled. Three roaches hid under a vacuum cleaner stored under the three-compartment sink. Four live roaches were in a trash bag under the triple sink.

Someone put on gloves after using their personal phone, then went to get a cup to serve drinks to guests. Handwashing is required, and the inspector didn’t see any.

The ice cream dispenser has been working with an expired license since Dec. 1, 2025.

Kenia Plaza, 14511 SW 266th St., Southwest Miami-Dade

Routine inspection, 15 total violations, four high priority violations

There was a hole in near the bottom of the wall in the prep area.

Plastic bottles, beans and oil were seen stored on the floor.

You know what’s coming: ”Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found.”

The inspector saw 20 droppings “on the bottom shelf next to clean pots at the kitchen area” and “eight droppings on a shelf over a kitchen prep table.”

Bread was in contact with nonfood-grade bags at a food prep area.

A “fan was soiled on top of the reach-in cooler at the prep area.”