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Texas Roadhouse

Texas Roadhouse's Florida stores average -0.08 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.26 to +0.11), below the county baseline. Rank 10 of 16 casual-dining brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.08vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.26 to +0.11
1.02 vs 1.10raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face
47stores in 29 counties, 209 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Texas Roadhouse is known for steak. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

0-0.51+0.27FY2016-17: 0.27 (n = 34)16-17FY2017-18: -0.21 (n = 33)17-18FY2018-19: -0.19 (n = 53)18-19FY2019-20: -0.23 (n = 62)19-20FY2020-21: -0.18 (n = 62)20-21FY2021-22: -0.12 (n = 68)21-22FY2022-23: -0.38 (n = 60)22-23FY2023-24: -0.18 (n = 70)23-24FY2024-25: -0.06 (n = 72)24-25FY2025-26: -0.01 (n = 67)25-26FY2026-27: -0.51 (n = 26) 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, Texas Roadhouse vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 209). Descriptions are DBPR's.
CodeDBPR descriptionTexas RoadhouseFloridaRatio
36Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved45.939.91.15x
14Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located42.646.90.91x
22Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean40.243.60.92x
12Hands washed and clean, good hygienic practices, eating/drinking/smoking35.423.01.54x
03Food Out of Temperature34.435.00.98x

Outcomes

13.4% 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)
67%of 46 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

No Texas Roadhouse 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

Texas Roadhouse elsewhere

Store-level matching: a store counts for Texas Roadhouse 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.