Melbourne Greek eatery racks up 32 inspection violations

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Florida's restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you.

For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action, visit our Brevard County restaurant inspections site.

Here's the breakdown for recent health inspections in Brevard County, Florida, for the week of July 8-14, 2024. Please note that some more recent, follow-up inspections may not be included here.

Disclaimer: The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation describes an inspection report as a 'snapshot' of conditions present at the time of the inspection. On any given day, an establishment may have fewer or more violations than noted in their most recent inspection. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment.

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For full restaurant inspection details, visit our Brevard County restaurant inspection site.

Which Brevard County restaurants got perfect scores on their health inspections?

These restaurants met all standards during their July 8-14 inspections and no violations were found.

Note: The ** indicates restaurants that failed an inspection and aced a follow-up inspection in the same week

• Burger Rob's Food Truck, Mobile food dispensing vehicle
• Kelsey's Pizza, 2845 Garden St., Titusville**
• Mangia E Bevi Pizzeria Napoletana, 218 W. Cocoa Beach Causeway, Cocoa Beach**
• Munchies En Ruedas LLC, Mobile food dispensing vehicle
• The Soup Shop, 4100 Wickham Road No. 104, Melbourne
• Zachary's Restaurant, 8799 Astronaut Blvd., Cape Canaveral**

Which Brevard County restaurants had high priority violations?

Burger King

8939 Astronaut Blvd., Cape Canaveral

Complaint Inspection on July 9

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

Eight total violations, with two high-priority violations

• High Priority - Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee touched register and then began touching fryer basket handles and poured a bag of fries without washing hands
• High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. **Warning**

Spiro's Kouzina

225 Palm Bay Road N.E., Suite 172, Melbourne

Complaint Inspection on July 12

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

32 total violations, with five high-priority violations

• High Priority - Food preparation sink has soil/old food residue.
• High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. 1 flying insect on front counter, 2 in dish area.
• High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature when stored in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw chicken stored over hotdogs in walk in freezer.
• High Priority - Stop Sale issued due to adulteration of food product. Raw chicken in standing water, not covered all 5 pans. Mushrooms, artichoke and beets are moldy. **Warning**
• High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. cheese (55F - Cold Holding); falafel balls (54F - Cold Holding); stuffed pastry (49F - Cold Holding); lamb (55F - Cold Holding) **Warning**

What agency inspects restaurants in Florida?

Routine regulation and inspection of restaurants is conducted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The Department of Health is responsible for investigation and control of food-borne illness outbreaks associated with all food establishments.

How do I report a dirty restaurant in Florida?

If you see abuses of state standards, report them and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation will send inspectors. Call the Florida DBPR at 850-487-1395 or report a restaurant for health violations online.

Get the whole story at our restaurant inspection database.

What does all that terminology in Florida restaurant inspections mean?

Basic violations are those considered against best practices.

A warning is issued after an inspector documents violations that must be corrected by a certain date or within a specified number of days from receipt of the inspection report.

An administrative complaint is a form of legal action taken by the division. Insufficient compliance after a warning, a pattern of repeat violations or existence of serious conditions that warrant immediate action may result in the division initiating an administrative complaint against the establishment. Says the division website: "Correcting the violations is important, but penalties may still result from violations corrected after the warning time was over."

An emergency order — when a restaurant is closed by the inspector — is based on an immediate threat to the public. Here, the Division of Hotels and Restaurants director has determined that the establishment must stop doing business and any division license is suspended to protect health, safety or welfare of the public.

A 24-hour call-back inspection will be performed after an emergency closure or suspension of license.