Outback Steakhouse

Outback Steakhouse's Florida stores average -0.08 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.23 to +0.06), below the county baseline. Rank 9 of 16 casual-dining brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.08vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.23 to +0.06

1.07 vs 1.16raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

101stores in 36 counties, 505 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

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Outback Steakhouse is known for steak. 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, Outback Steakhouse vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 505). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Outback Steakhouse	Florida	Ratio
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	56.6	39.9	1.42x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	51.5	46.9	1.10x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	51.1	43.6	1.17x
03	Food Out of Temperature	46.9	35.0	1.34x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	38.2	42.0	0.91x

Outcomes

16.2% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.99% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

62%of 96 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

2 closures of Outback Steakhouse stores in DBPR's weekly extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06); latest 2 shown. Reasons are DBPR's own wording.
Closed	City	County	Reason (DBPR)
2026-07-15	Fort Myers	Lee	Fly activity
2026-01-26	Palm Coast	Flagler	Rodent 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 Outback Steakhouse location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Outback Steakhouse 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.