CAVA

5248 UNIVERSITY PKY, SARASOTA, Sarasota County. DBPR licence 6805678. 7 inspection visits from 2023-10-17 to 2026-07-10.

Passed, no follow-up neededLast visit, 2026-07-10: routine inspection, 0 high-priority, 0 intermediate, 0 basic violations

0 of 6routine inspections with more high-priority violations than the Sarasota County average that year (6 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, 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	Inter.	Basic	County avg	What was cited
2026-07-10	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	1.24
2025-11-19	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	1	2	1.11	3 areas 14 Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located 22 Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2025-07-11	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
2024-12-11	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	0	1.26
2024-07-02	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1	1.26	1 area 36 Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved
2023-12-20	Complaint inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	0	1		1 area 35 Presence of insects/rodents. Animals prohibited. Outer openings protected from insects, rodent proof
2023-10-17	Routine inspection	Passed, no follow-up needed DBPR: Inspection Completed - No Further Action	1	3	1.24	4 areas 11 Personnel with infections restricted 23 Non-food contact surfaces clean 35 Presence of insects/rodents. Animals prohibited. Outer openings protected from insects, rodent proof 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.