InspectLens

Miller's Ale House

Miller's Ale House's Florida stores average +0.78 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval +0.55 to +1.03), above the county baseline. Rank 16 of 16 casual-dining brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

+0.78vs county baseline, 95% interval +0.55 to +1.03
1.96 vs 1.18raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face
68stores in 25 counties, 319 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Miller's Ale House is known for chicken tenders and Buffalo wings. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

00.86FY2016-17: 0.71 (n = 68)16-17FY2017-18: 0.76 (n = 65)17-18FY2018-19: 0.51 (n = 78)18-19FY2019-20: 0.84 (n = 88)19-20FY2020-21: 0.66 (n = 82)20-21FY2021-22: 0.82 (n = 87)21-22FY2022-23: 0.86 (n = 81)22-23FY2023-24: 0.80 (n = 100)23-24FY2024-25: 0.71 (n = 107)24-25FY2025-26: 0.82 (n = 112)25-26FY2026-27: 0.58 (n = 49) 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, Miller's Ale House vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 319). Descriptions are DBPR's.
CodeDBPR descriptionMiller's Ale HouseFloridaRatio
36Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved95.039.92.38x
22Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean91.543.62.10x
03Food Out of Temperature81.535.02.33x
14Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located74.946.91.60x
08Food protection, cross-contamination53.948.11.12x

Outcomes

37.6% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)
0.31% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)
14%of 66 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

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

Other casual-dining brands

Ranked casual-dining brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
RankBrandvs county95% intervalStores
1Chuck E. Cheese-0.69-0.86 to -0.5359
2Olive Garden-0.48-0.57 to -0.3980
3Buffalo Wild Wings-0.36-0.49 to -0.2462
4Chili's-0.34-0.43 to -0.25139
5Hooters-0.27-0.42 to -0.1248
6LongHorn Steakhouse-0.23-0.35 to -0.1181
7Applebee's-0.19-0.31 to -0.0788
8Sonny's BBQ-0.12-0.28 to +0.0465
9Outback Steakhouse-0.08-0.23 to +0.06101
10Texas Roadhouse-0.08-0.26 to +0.1147
11Red Lobster+0.07-0.14 to +0.3056
12Ruby Tuesday+0.12-0.14 to +0.4031
13Bonefish Grill+0.19-0.04 to +0.4549
14Carrabba's Italian Grill+0.30+0.16 to +0.4568
15Beef 'O' Brady's+0.48+0.30 to +0.6788
16Miller's Ale House+0.78+0.55 to +1.0368

Store-level matching: a store counts for Miller's Ale House 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.