Carrabba's Italian Grill

Carrabba's Italian Grill's Florida stores average +0.30 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval +0.16 to +0.45), above the county baseline. Rank 14 of 16 casual-dining brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

+0.30vs county baseline, 95% interval +0.16 to +0.45

1.47 vs 1.17raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

68stores in 31 counties, 354 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Carrabba's Italian Grill is known for chicken Marsala. 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, Carrabba's Italian Grill vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 354). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Carrabba's Italian Grill	Florida	Ratio
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	91.5	39.9	2.29x
03	Food Out of Temperature	86.2	35.0	2.46x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	61.0	46.9	1.30x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	53.4	43.6	1.22x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	48.9	42.0	1.16x

Outcomes

29.9% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.56% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

3%of 67 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

1 closures of Carrabba's Italian Grill 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)
2026-01-12	St. Petersburg	Pinellas	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 Carrabba's Italian Grill location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Carrabba's Italian Grill 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.