WENDY'S 596

280 LAKELAND PARK BLVD, LAKELAND, Polk County. DBPR licence 6306599. 7 inspection visits from 2023-07-17 to 2026-11-02.

Passed, no follow-up neededLast visit, 2026-11-02: routine inspection, 0 high-priority, 0 intermediate, 1 basic violations

1 of 6routine inspections with more high-priority violations than the Polk County average that year (5 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, Polk 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	Basic	County avg	What was cited
2026-11-02	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.43	1 area 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located
2026-05-05	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.40	1 area 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2025-08-18	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.40	1 area 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located
2025-02-25	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	5	0.39	6 areas 13 Clean clothes, hair restraints 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located (x2) 16 Dishwashing facilities designed, constructed, operated 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 29 Plumbing installed and maintained 35 Presence of insects/rodents. Animals prohibited. Outer openings protected from insects, rodent proof
2024-08-27	Licensing inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1		1 area 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located
2023-12-28	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	3	0.41	3 areas 10 In use food dispensing utensils properly stored 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 33 Containers covered, adequate number, insect and rodent proof, emptied at proper intervals, clean
2023-07-17	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.41	1 area 51 Other conditions sanitary and safe operation

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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.