A chicken restaurant in south Orlando was temporarily closed after a health inspector found multiple code violations, including roaches on a prep table and rodent bite marks on flour.
Rusticas Chicken, which is located at 14650 Gatorland Drive, Unit 5, was temporarily closed on Thursday, August 18 after an inspector from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation cited 20 code violations, including 4 considered high priority.
Among the high priority violations was the presence of roach activity as evidenced by three roaches that were found on a prep table.
In addition to roaches, the inspector found more than 80 rodent droppings around the kitchen and was forced to issue a stop sale on bags of black corn-flour after seeing chew-marks on the bags.
The restaurant was permitted to reopen the following day, Friday, August 19, after another inspection turned up only four violations, none of high priority.