Are your favorite South Florida restaurants clean or filthy? This map will show you
Do you want fries with that? What about a roach?
Sometimes restaurants have nasty surprises scurrying around the kitchen. Inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation are tasked with visiting restaurants to check for cleanliness and if workers are storing and handling food correctly.
So how do restaurants across Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties fare?
Use the data visualization below to see which South Florida restaurants received violations in the last 30 days and why. If a restaurant fails an inspection, it must remain closed until it passes a re-inspection.
To search for a specific restaurant, or by city, keep the chart in graph mode and type the name of the restaurant or city in the search field. Once the map is updated, you can click “data table” if you prefer to see the results in list view.
If you don’t see your favorite restaurant on the list, that’s a good thing. If you saw a problem when you were there, file a complaint with the Florida Department of Business Regulation. And make sure to follow Miami Herald reporter David J. Neal for updates on his “Sick and Shut Down List.”
This data visualization is automatically updated and shows all restaurant inspection results other than a “Pass” for the last 30 days.
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