Tijuana Flats

Tijuana Flats's Florida stores average -0.27 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.37 to -0.16), below the county baseline. Rank 4 of 4 Mexican brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.27vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.37 to -0.16

0.92 vs 1.19raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

115stores in 30 counties, 523 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Tijuana Flats is known for burrito and nachos. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

NachosWho Invented Nachos? Ignacio Anaya and the 1940 Paper TrailPlateTales

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, Tijuana Flats vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 523). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Tijuana Flats	Florida	Ratio
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	65.0	39.9	1.63x
31	Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed	60.0	42.0	1.43x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	50.1	46.9	1.07x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	49.9	43.6	1.14x
29	Plumbing installed and maintained	37.7	16.9	2.23x

Outcomes

21.0% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.76% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

92%of 101 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

1 closures of Tijuana Flats stores in DBPR's weekly extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06); latest 1 shown. Reasons are DBPR's own wording.
Closed	City	County	Reason (DBPR)
2026-04-30	Coral Springs	Broward	Roach activity

Other Mexican brands

Ranked Mexican brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	Taco Bell	-0.82	-0.87 to -0.79	447
2	Chipotle	-0.58	-0.65 to -0.51	282
3	Moe's Southwest Grill	-0.44	-0.54 to -0.33	92
4	Tijuana Flats	-0.27	-0.37 to -0.16	115

Look up a single Tijuana Flats location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Tijuana Flats 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.