Bob Evans

Bob Evans's Florida stores average +0.17 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.01 to +0.37), above the county baseline. Rank 3 of 9 breakfast and family brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

+0.17vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.01 to +0.37

1.24 vs 1.06raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

38stores in 23 counties, 204 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Bob Evans is known for biscuits and gravy and pancakes. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

Relative to the county baseline, first visits of routine inspections. Open circle and * = fiscal year in progress (data as of 2026-11-09). Hover a point for n.

Most-cited violation codes

Citations per 100 routine inspections, Bob Evans vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 204). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Bob Evans	Florida	Ratio
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	85.3	43.6	1.96x
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	72.5	39.9	1.82x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	52.9	46.9	1.13x
23	Non-food contact surfaces clean	48.0	23.6	2.03x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	46.6	42.0	1.11x

Outcomes

16.2% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.00% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

10%of 38 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

No Bob Evans store appears in DBPR's weekly closure extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06).

Other breakfast and family brands

Ranked breakfast and family brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	First Watch	-0.27	-0.36 to -0.17	143
2	Cracker Barrel	+0.14	-0.05 to +0.34	60
3	Bob Evans	+0.17	-0.01 to +0.37	38
4	Waffle House	+0.21	+0.10 to +0.31	191
5	Denny's	+0.25	+0.12 to +0.39	123
6	Golden Corral	+0.29	-0.04 to +0.63	32
7	IHOP	+0.31	+0.15 to +0.48	84
8	Perkins	+0.79	+0.48 to +1.11	30
9	Keke's Breakfast Cafe	+0.79	+0.53 to +1.06	68

Look up a single Bob Evans location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Bob Evans when its DBPR business name matches the reviewed aliases in InspectLens's brand list. Co-branded units (for example KFC with Taco Bell) are not counted for either brand.