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Keke's Breakfast Cafe

Keke's Breakfast Cafe's Florida stores average +0.79 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval +0.53 to +1.06), above the county baseline. Rank 9 of 9 breakfast and family brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

+0.79vs county baseline, 95% interval +0.53 to +1.06
1.97 vs 1.17raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face
68stores in 23 counties, 329 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Keke's Breakfast Cafe is known for french toast and waffles. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

01.05FY2016-17: 0.60 (n = 46)16-17FY2017-18: 0.95 (n = 52)17-18FY2018-19: 0.66 (n = 71)18-19FY2019-20: 0.61 (n = 89)19-20FY2020-21: 0.72 (n = 97)20-21FY2021-22: 1.05 (n = 95)21-22FY2022-23: 0.82 (n = 91)22-23FY2023-24: 0.93 (n = 111)23-24FY2024-25: 0.71 (n = 106)24-25FY2025-26: 0.74 (n = 112)25-26FY2026-27: 0.72 (n = 47) partial year26-27*

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, Keke's Breakfast Cafe vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 329). Descriptions are DBPR's.
CodeDBPR descriptionKeke's Breakfast CafeFloridaRatio
03Food Out of Temperature70.835.02.02x
12Hands washed and clean, good hygienic practices, eating/drinking/smoking69.323.03.01x
14Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located60.546.91.29x
31Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed53.542.01.27x
22Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean48.943.61.12x

Outcomes

24.0% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)
0.91% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)
18%of 63 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

4 closures of Keke's Breakfast Cafe stores in DBPR's weekly extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06); latest 4 shown. Reasons are DBPR's own wording.
ClosedCityCountyReason (DBPR)
2026-10-29Boynton BeachPalm BeachRoach & fly activity
2026-10-12ParklandBrowardFly activity
2026-10-07Lake MarySeminoleRodent & fly activity
2026-03-18OrlandoOrangeFly activity

Other breakfast and family brands

Ranked breakfast and family brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
RankBrandvs county95% intervalStores
1First Watch-0.27-0.36 to -0.17143
2Cracker Barrel+0.14-0.05 to +0.3460
3Bob Evans+0.17-0.01 to +0.3738
4Waffle House+0.21+0.10 to +0.31191
5Denny's+0.25+0.12 to +0.39123
6Golden Corral+0.29-0.04 to +0.6332
7IHOP+0.31+0.15 to +0.4884
8Perkins+0.79+0.48 to +1.1130
9Keke's Breakfast Cafe+0.79+0.53 to +1.0668
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Keke's Breakfast Cafe franchise costs and FDD: FranchiseLens

Store-level matching: a store counts for Keke's Breakfast Cafe 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.