Playa Bowls

Playa Bowls's Florida stores average -0.80 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.97 to -0.62), below the county baseline. Rank 1 of 9 other quick-service brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.80vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.97 to -0.62

0.52 vs 1.32raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

36stores in 16 counties, 85 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, Playa Bowls vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 85). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Playa Bowls	Florida	Ratio
53	Food management certification valid / Employee training verification	40.0	21.1	1.90x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	37.6	42.0	0.90x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	27.1	43.6	0.62x
10	In use food dispensing utensils properly stored	25.9	18.7	1.38x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	25.9	46.9	0.55x

Outcomes

24.7% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.00% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

100%of 28 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

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

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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Playa Bowls elsewhere

Playa Bowls franchise costs and FDD: FranchiseLens

Store-level matching: a store counts for Playa Bowls 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.