SUSHI HOUSE
109 COURTHOUSE SQ, INVERNESS, FL 34450
License #1901189
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Excellent Health Score
How is this score calculated? →SUSHI HOUSE in INVERNESS currently holds an InspectFL Health Score of 99 out of 100 — an A grade for consistent compliance with state food-safety standards. This restaurant has 2 inspections on record from Florida DBPR, with the most recent inspection on May 11, 2026. Across those visits, inspectors documented 21 total violations — 4 critical, 7 major, 10 minor.
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What stands out in this inspection history
The latest inspection on May 11, 2026 included 3 critical violations, 7 major, and 9 minor.
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Inspection History
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- Administrative complaint recommended
- [08B-38-4] Food stored on floor. Near back door, buckets of sauce, oil jugs and beers on floor.
- [12B-07-4] Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Employee drinks on prep tables at the sushi bar and cook line.
- [41-17-4] Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. At the server area at the sushi bar entrance, spray bottles with blue and purple liquid not labeled.
- [01B-36-5] Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within two hours. At the cook line, white rice 112F, per employee rice cooked at 11:00 and moved to rice warmer approximately at 12:45 112F. Stop sale.
- [02C-02-5] Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. At the cook line, marinated cooked eggs made 05/09/26 no date, also tofu package opened 05/09/26 no date.
- [05-08-4] No probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products.
- [14-01-5] Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Bowl no handle inside flour bin and sauce, manager moved the bowls.
- [27-11-4] No running water at mop sink.
- [29-27-4] No mop sink or curbed cleaning facility provided at establishment. Per operator mop sink located outside on left side of back door, sink not connected to water or plumbing.
- [40-06-5] Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. At the cook line employee jacket next and above customers food.
- [51-18-6] No copy of latest inspection report available. No documents available at inspection time.
- [22-45-4] Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Male employee from sushi bar rinsed container in triple sink and placed them with cleaned containers, Inspector instructed to set up triple sink, chlorine 50ppm.
- [06-09-1] Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating that it is to remain frozen until time of use no longer frozen and not removed from reduced oxygen package. Reach-in cooler near back door, tuna 38F, ground tuna 38F, per manager tuna pulled out of freezer 05/10/26.
- [25-06-4] Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. To go boxes not inverted at the sushi bar and cook line.
- [23-03-4] Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Exterior of equipment at the cook line and sushi bar soiled with food build up and grease.
- [11-26-1] No proof provided that food employees are informed of their responsibility to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities related to foodborne illnesses. For one male employee at the cook line.
- [08A-05-6] Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Reach-in cooler at the cook line, raw shell eggs stored above sauce, also in freezer raw fish stored above deserts and wontons, also raw beef stored above raw fish and shrimp.
- [03F-10-5] No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold time/temperature control for safety food. No documents available at inspection time, per Manager sushi rice discarded at 3:00 when restaurant closed.
- [53B-02-5] No proof of required state approved employee training provided for employee hired more than 60 days ago. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233. For one male employee at the cook line.
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