WENDY'S 597

1520 BROADWAY AVE N, BARTOW, Polk County. DBPR licence 6306821. 8 inspection visits from 2023-07-18 to 2026-09-02.

Passed, no follow-up neededLast visit, 2026-09-02: 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

1inspections 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
2026-09-02	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.43	1 area 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean
2026-04-06	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	0.40
2025-10-21	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.40	1 area 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean
2025-05-20	Complaint inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0
2025-03-14	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.39	1 area 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean
2024-08-29	Licensing inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0
2023-12-06	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.41	1 area 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean
2023-07-18	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	2	0.41	4 areas 03 Food Out of Temperature 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located 29 Plumbing installed and maintained 35 Presence of insects/rodents. Animals prohibited. Outer openings protected from insects, rodent proof

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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.