TACO BELL 0375

24186 HWY 27, LAKE WALES, Polk County. DBPR licence 6308223. 7 inspection visits from 2023-08-01 to 2026-07-14.

Passed, no follow-up neededLast visit, 2026-07-14: complaint inspection, 0 high-priority, 0 intermediate, 1 basic violations

0 of 5routine 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

2inspections 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	Inter.	Basic	County avg	What was cited
2026-07-14	Complaint inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1		1 area 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean
2025-12-11	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	1	0	0.40	1 area 53 Food management certification valid / Employee training verification
2025-07-21	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	2	0.40	2 areas 08 Food protection, cross-contamination 24 Storage/handling of clean equipment, utensils
2024-12-09	Complaint inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	1	2		3 areas 32 Restrooms with self-closing doors, fixtures operate properly, facility clean, supplied with hand-soap, disposable towels or hand drying devices, tissue, covered waste receptacles 33 Containers covered, adequate number, insect and rodent proof, emptied at proper intervals, clean 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2024-07-22	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	0.39	1 area 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2023-12-19	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	0	0.41	2 areas 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 31 Toilet and hand-washing facilities, number, convenient, designed, installed
2023-08-01	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	2	0.41	2 areas 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved

The food: where these dishes come from

Taco Bell is known for tacos, nachos and quesadilla. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

TacosHistory of Tacos: Silver Mines, Not 10,000 YearsPlateTales

NachosWho Invented Nachos? Ignacio Anaya and the 1940 Paper TrailPlateTales

This is a Taco Bell location. How Taco Bell's 447 Florida stores compare with their counties.

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.