Unfortunately for some restaurants and the foodies who frequent them, the DBPR s increased activity last month led to five temporary closures.
Between Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, 243 restaurants, food trucks or businesses with concessions passed their initial February inspections. More than half of those establishments had even better news to share with their staffs, as 129 of them passed with zero violations.
But 37 restaurants between the two counties failed their first inspection. Five restaurants three in Escambia and two in Santa Rosa had to briefly close in February for receiving the dreaded emergency order recommendation, which comes with a temporary closure.