Worth knowing about
Most of this site is a record. This is the part where we point at the things in it worth your attention — usually kitchens quietly doing it right, which is the half of the story nobody else publishes.
“Ordered shut” almost never means what you think
Florida has ordered 4,363 emergency closures since July 2023. 94% reopened — and more than three quarters were cleared within a single day.
Aug 26, 2026 · Maddie · 2 min readFlorida's food trucks are dramatically cleaner than its restaurants
83.6% of graded food trucks hold an A. For sit-down restaurants it is 40.3%. The gap is real, and part of it is not what you would guess.
Aug 26, 2026 · Maddie · 2 min readWhat Florida inspectors actually write about most
We hold 2,136,363 findings in the inspectors' own words. The single most common one is not what anybody expects, and the second is floors.
Aug 26, 2026 · Maddie · 2 min readFive high-priority findings before lunch. Signed off the same afternoon.
Skewer's in Indialantic had a genuinely bad inspection in October 2023. What happened next is the part almost nobody publishes.
Aug 26, 2026 · Maddie · 2 min readTen inspections, seven of them because somebody complained
A 165-seat bar on Bayou Chico has been inspected ten times since 2023. The state has never once recorded a high-priority violation there.
Aug 26, 2026 · Maddie · 2 min readThe Hardest Room To Keep Clean
A 324-seat buffet has gone three years without a single high-priority violation. That is harder than it sounds.
Aug 25, 2026 · Madilyn Thomas · 2 min read