Florida Restaurant violations

[Jakey Rowling]

Not sure if you'll thank me for this, but here is a link to Florida restaurant inspection reports.

http://www.orlandosentinel2.com/data/restaurants/

Remember that it is probably no better or worse than anywhere here.

So if immigration doesn't stop you in your tracks, the kitchens might

 

[natalielongstaff]

thanks for that

 

[snookhams]

I am too frightened to look at the restaurants that we have just eaten at, the only one we really disliked and had a horrible meal at was a perkins restaurant, our only visit to one of their establishments this holiday

 

[natalielongstaff]

california grill had 4 violations

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Strange that. I suppose it's everyone has different tatstes. we Love Perkins, for the salad bowl, the Pot Roast and the scrummy cakes

Then again, one time we stopped at a Wendys on the way to Tampa, never again would we go near a Wendys even though they are all franchises as the food was awful.

Or funnily enough TGIF, as they seated Americans before us Brits even though they were the same party size and had come in on spec after us. (better tippers?) so we walked out, never to use them again.

 

[jen_uk]

Oh dear some of my favourite places to eat i.e. Earl of Sandwich, HOB, RFC etc are on there with lots of serious violations!!

 

[T16GEM]

seems pretty bad - but as you say no worse than here really. I would be interested in what the violations actually were though.

 

[Jakey Rowling]

seems pretty bad - but as you say no worse than here really. I would be interested in what the violations actually were though.

If you select orlando as the city for example here http://www.orlandosentinel2.com/data/restaurants/inspectResultsAlpha.php?txtCity=orlando

Then the "click here" link on the left hand side gives you details of the violations.

 

[richtomas]

we love earl of sandwich,but 2 weeks we were tucking into our lovely sandwich and at the end of the table crawling up the leg was the biggest cockroach ive ever seen ,i hit with my hand and it flew towards my wife head and dropped on the floor and then went back under our table ,we all got up and finished our meal outside

 

[kevin harrison]

Strange that. I suppose it's everyone has different tatstes. we Love Perkins, for the salad bowl, the Pot Roast and the scrummy cakes

Then again, one time we stopped at a Wendys on the way to Tampa, never again would we go near a Wendys even though they are all franchises as the food was awful.

Or funnily enough TGIF, as they seated Americans before us Brits even though they were the same party size and had come in on spec after us. (better tippers?) so we walked out, never to use them again.

A server once told me that some of them do not like serving Brits because we either tip very little or not at all.

A trick I do is on a first visit to a place I might use more than once, I leave a big tip and then they remember you and you get good service next time.

 

[disneyholic family]

we love earl of sandwich,but 2 weeks we were tucking into our lovely sandwich and at the end of the table crawling up the leg was the biggest cockroach ive ever seen ,i hit with my hand and it flew towards my wife head and dropped on the floor and then went back under our table ,we all got up and finished our meal outside

what people refer to as cockroaches in florida, aren't like the cockroaches that you encounter in New York or Chicago or any northern US urban area....the florida "cockroaches" (palmetto bugs) aren't really related to sanitation.....i'm assuming this is what you saw....they are very large bugs, that usually require at least a bazooka to kill....we have them where we live....they are native to very hot climates....(and the ones where i live fly as well.... .....nothing like lying in bed and suddenly have one of those babies land on your shoulder they're so big here, you could saddle up and ride them....)

i'm hoping this is what you saw.....if it was a real cockroach cockroach (what are often referred to in the states as a german cockroach, as opposed to the palmetto bug, sometimes called the american cockroach), then that's a good deal less appetizing.....of course, palmetto bugs aren't very appetizing either, but if you live in a hot climate you get used to them (ok...so maybe not used to them, but they freak you out a bit less over time....ok...so maybe they keep freaking you out, but you get pretty good at murdering them.....but in the long run, they'll all be alive and we'll be long dead.....)

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Yes, so many times in Spain has one of the little fellas wandered across the floor of a restaraunt and it always the brits making a fuss
The Spanish either take no notice or just pick it up and throw it outside.

One RAF base I was at (too many!) years ago had thousands of the little B*****S in the kitchens!

Just a normal way of life.

Most of the violations I have looked at on that site are quite inconsequential, more of a not meeting the paperwork than actual sanitary problems.

Again, many years ago now, I was on the Public Works and Protection Committee of a City council and this was the committee that prosecuted health and environmental problems and yes, I did actually see a sliced loaf in its wrapping from a nationally known bakery that had sliced mouse in it!

Youb would not believe some of our restaraunts health violations we had to deal with!!

 

[disneyholic family]

oh yes...pick them up and toss them out ....i've seen locals do that....cringe cringe cringe cringe cringe.....

 

[lost_in_hollywood]

TBH i dont care, just had a look at the Golden Corral on the corner Sandlake Road and Int drive, got 3 bad violations, but i'll still eat their as it is just literaly across the road from the hotle im staying at! Boy am i gonna get fat lols!

yes, I did actually see a sliced loaf in its wrapping from a nationally known bakery that had sliced mouse in it!

eeeeeeeeeeeew! thats gross!

 

[wayneg]

I did actually see a sliced loaf in its wrapping from a nationally known bakery that had sliced mouse in it!

Youb would not believe some of our restaraunts health violations we had to deal with!!

I want pics!!!

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

I want pics!!!

It was interesting!
We would hear the case then decide whether to prosecute or not. After we had done that then they would tell us the name of the person/place.

It made going out to eat interesting...

 

[arieliwish]

what people refer to as cockroaches in florida, aren't like the cockroaches that you encounter in New York or Chicago or any northern US urban area....the florida "cockroaches" (palmetto bugs) aren't really related to sanitation.....i'm assuming this is what you saw....they are very large bugs, that usually require at least a bazooka to kill....we have them where we live....they are native to very hot climates....(and the ones where i live fly as well.... .....nothing like lying in bed and suddenly have one of those babies land on your shoulder they're so big here, you could saddle up and ride them....)

i'm hoping this is what you saw.....if it was a real cockroach cockroach (what are often referred to in the states as a german cockroach, as opposed to the palmetto bug, sometimes called the american cockroach), then that's a good deal less appetizing.....of course, palmetto bugs aren't very appetizing either, but if you live in a hot climate you get used to them (ok...so maybe not used to them, but they freak you out a bit less over time....ok...so maybe they keep freaking you out, but you get pretty good at murdering them.....but in the long run, they'll all be alive and we'll be long dead.....)

We had one of these in our room at Clarion Universal. We brought a lot of carrier bags from MK that we had done exit bag collection on, put them all on the bed and there it was, jumping and flying about! We didn't know what on earth it was, it may as well have been a dinosaur with the fuss me and kids were making! DH whacked it and jumped on it! It was a couple of days after hurricane frances and I was talking to a guy in the laundry room whose family had been put in our hotel after their home in daytona had been hit hard. He explained what it was and said it had prob been disturbed from its natural environment by the amount of surface water around, so had looked for somewhere new to rest and found our bags in the Disney stores!

Still slightly disturbing but felt better about it!

Lynn

 

[wayneg]

We had one in our room at Comfort Inn LBV at Xmas. I will never have a ground floor room again, so many things come in under the doors of hotels.