Built by a Florida dad who wanted a straight answer.
Hi, I'm Michael Mancuso. I built Dirty Dish List so my family — and yours — could actually read Florida's restaurant inspection records before deciding where to eat.
It started with two kids and a dinner decision.
I live in Winter Garden, Florida, and I'm raising two kids, ages 5 and 6. Like most parents, I pick where we eat based on menus, reviews, and gut feeling. But the thing I actually cared about — what the state inspector found in the kitchen — was buried in records that are public, yet genuinely hard to find and harder to read.
So I built the tool my family needed: every Florida restaurant's inspection history, in plain language, with the serious stuff up front. Once it worked for us, keeping it to ourselves felt wrong. Dirty Dish List is that tool, shared with every family in Florida.
No ads. No plan to add them.
This is a personal project built for public benefit. There is no advertising on this site, and no plan to add any. There are no accounts, nothing for sale, and no one paying to influence what you see here.
The only measurement we do is limited and practical: keeping the service working and accessible, and learning how visitors find the site so more people can discover it. The details are in the privacy page.
Twenty years of building products, pointed at dinner.
By day, I'm a technology and product leader — I've spent over twenty years launching digital products for startups and Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, fintech, and restaurants. Dirty Dish List is what happens when those skills get aimed at a question from my own kitchen table. If you want the full professional story, it's at Mancuso.ai.
Journalists: this data is yours too.
Florida's restaurant inspection records are public, and local reporters have done some of the best work explaining them. If you cover food, health, or consumer news in Florida and want help making inspection insights easier for your readers to use — data questions, methodology walkthroughs, or ideas for your own coverage — I'm glad to help, free, no strings.
The State of Florida supplies the inspections.
Restaurant names, licenses, inspection dates, violations, dispositions, and Emergency Orders of Closure come from public records published by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). Dirty Dish List does not inspect restaurants and is not affiliated with the State of Florida or DBPR.
The sanitation score is ours, not the state's.
The 0–100 sanitation score, tiers, rankings, and plain-language summaries are calculated by this site from the trailing year of State of Florida inspection data. They are not government ratings or state findings. See how the score works.
The official record remains the authority.
If a listing appears inaccurate, we review correction requests against the source record and correct site errors. We do not alter official State of Florida history or accept payment to change a score. Send a correction request.
State of Florida data — scores calculated by this site
Official State of Florida records