APPLEBEE'S

5490 CLARK RD, SARASOTA, Sarasota County. DBPR licence 6804636. 8 inspection visits from 2023-09-13 to 2026-08-21.

Passed, no follow-up neededLast visit, 2026-08-21: routine inspection, 2 high-priority, 0 intermediate, 2 basic violations

2 of 7routine inspections with more high-priority violations than the Sarasota 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, Sarasota 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
2026-08-21	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	2	1.24	4 areas 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 29 Plumbing installed and maintained 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2025-10-20	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	1.11
2025-07-14	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	1.11	1 area 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2025-02-04	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	2	1	1.26	3 areas 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 29 Plumbing installed and maintained 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2024-08-26	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	1.26
2024-04-18	Licensing inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0
2024-02-28	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	1	1	1.24	2 areas 24 Storage/handling of clean equipment, utensils 29 Plumbing installed and maintained
2023-09-13	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	1.24	1 area 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located

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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.