Cold Stone Creamery

Cold Stone Creamery's Florida stores average -0.74 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.84 to -0.64), below the county baseline. Rank 2 of 9 other quick-service brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.74vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.84 to -0.64

0.47 vs 1.21raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

100stores in 24 counties, 274 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

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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, Cold Stone Creamery vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 274). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Cold Stone Creamery	Florida	Ratio
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	42.0	46.9	0.89x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	41.6	42.0	0.99x
11	Personnel with infections restricted	35.8	16.5	2.16x
53	Food management certification valid / Employee training verification	35.4	21.1	1.68x
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	35.0	39.9	0.88x

Outcomes

21.2% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.36% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

100%of 88 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

1 closures of Cold Stone Creamery 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)
2026-05-12	Indialantic	Brevard	No restrooms

Other other quick-service brands

Ranked other quick-service brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	Playa Bowls	-0.80	-0.97 to -0.62	36
2	Cold Stone Creamery	-0.74	-0.84 to -0.64	100
3	Tropical Smoothie Cafe	-0.56	-0.64 to -0.46	216
4	Panda Express	-0.51	-0.61 to -0.40	117
5	Dairy Queen	-0.49	-0.60 to -0.37	114
6	Cava	-0.41	-0.60 to -0.18	31
7	Mission BBQ	-0.29	-0.50 to -0.07	31
8	Captain D's	-0.25	-0.41 to -0.07	35
9	Pei Wei	-0.10	-0.33 to +0.14	34

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Store-level matching: a store counts for Cold Stone Creamery 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.