Buffalo Wild Wings

Buffalo Wild Wings's Florida stores average -0.36 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.49 to -0.24), below the county baseline. Rank 3 of 16 casual-dining brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.36vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.49 to -0.24

0.82 vs 1.19raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

62stores in 26 counties, 286 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Buffalo Wild Wings is known for Buffalo wings. 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, Buffalo Wild Wings vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 286). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Buffalo Wild Wings	Florida	Ratio
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	60.1	43.6	1.38x
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	53.5	39.9	1.34x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	48.6	42.0	1.16x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	42.7	46.9	0.91x
16	Dishwashing facilities designed, constructed, operated	39.5	17.0	2.33x

Outcomes

13.3% 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)

100%of 54 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

1 closures of Buffalo Wild Wings stores in DBPR's weekly extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06); latest 1 shown. Reasons are DBPR's own wording.
Closed	City	County	Reason (DBPR)
2026-08-24	Orlando	Orange	Roach & fly activity

Other casual-dining brands

Ranked casual-dining brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	Chuck E. Cheese	-0.69	-0.86 to -0.53	59
2	Olive Garden	-0.48	-0.57 to -0.39	80
3	Buffalo Wild Wings	-0.36	-0.49 to -0.24	62
4	Chili's	-0.34	-0.43 to -0.25	139
5	Hooters	-0.27	-0.42 to -0.12	48
6	LongHorn Steakhouse	-0.23	-0.35 to -0.11	81
7	Applebee's	-0.19	-0.31 to -0.07	88
8	Sonny's BBQ	-0.12	-0.28 to +0.04	65
9	Outback Steakhouse	-0.08	-0.23 to +0.06	101
10	Texas Roadhouse	-0.08	-0.26 to +0.11	47
11	Red Lobster	+0.07	-0.14 to +0.30	56
12	Ruby Tuesday	+0.12	-0.14 to +0.40	31
13	Bonefish Grill	+0.19	-0.04 to +0.45	49
14	Carrabba's Italian Grill	+0.30	+0.16 to +0.45	68
15	Beef 'O' Brady's	+0.48	+0.30 to +0.67	88
16	Miller's Ale House	+0.78	+0.55 to +1.03	68

Look up a single Buffalo Wild Wings location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Buffalo Wild Wings 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.