South Florida Dirty Dining: Roaches and Rodents Drive a Wave of Restaurant Closures in Palm Beach, Broward

South Florida Dirty Dining: Roaches and Rodents Drive a Wave of Restaurant Closures in Palm Beach, Broward

BOCA RATON, FL — State inspectors temporarily closed 11 Palm Beach and Broward restaurants during the week of July 13, and nearly all of them came down to the same thing: pests. Roaches, rodents and flies drove the vast majority of the week's local emergency closures, according to Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation records. Two of the closures were in Boca Raton, two more in Delray Beach, and the rest were scattered acros…