WAFFLE HOUSE 1491

7000 THOMAS DRIVE, PANAMA CITY BEACH, Bay County. DBPR licence 1304919. 8 inspection visits from 2023-07-13 to 2026-11-02.

Corrected at follow-upLast visit, 2026-11-02: follow-up visit, 0 high-priority, 0 intermediate, 0 basic violations

3 of 7routine inspections with more high-priority violations than the Bay County average that year (4 had none)

0emergency closures recommended at an inspection since July 2023

0inspections prompted by a complaint

Every inspection visit

Newest first. Violations: high-priority / intermediate / basic. County average = high-priority violations at a first routine visit, Bay County, same fiscal year. Codes and descriptions are DBPR's; the inspector's written notes are on DBPR's site only.
Date	Visit	Result	High	Inter.	Basic	County avg	What was cited
2026-11-02	Follow-up visit	Corrected at follow-up DBPR: Call Back - Complied	0	0	0
2026-10-06	Routine inspection	Warning: inspector to return DBPR: Warning Issued	1	1	3	0.91	5 areas 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 24 Storage/handling of clean equipment, utensils 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved 41 Toxic items properly stored, labeled and used properly
2026-04-08	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	2	0.78	2 areas 29 Plumbing installed and maintained 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2025-12-01	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	2	0.78	3 areas 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean 53 Food management certification valid / Employee training verification
2025-05-06	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	0	3	0.79	4 areas 03 Food Out of Temperature (x2) 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 29 Plumbing installed and maintained 50 Current license properly displayed
2024-09-04	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	2	0.79	2 areas 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2024-03-14	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	0	0	0.65	2 areas 08 Food protection, cross-contamination 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean
2023-07-13	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	4	0.65	4 areas 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved

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A routine inspection is one visit on one day. Inspectors in different counties record violations differently, so compare a count with its county average, not with a restaurant in another county. Nothing on this page is a rating. Source: DBPR inspection files, data as of 2026-11-09; DBPR's own record for this licence is the official one.