To check a Texas DSHS retail-food compliance action, open the official Compliance Actions page and follow its current disciplinary-actions PDF. Search the license or file number and the legal or trading name, then read the complete entry across the page. Keep its action date separate from any inspection date mentioned in the violation narrative.
The entry is a route to an enforcement file. For ordinary findings, use the Texas DSHS inspection-report guide, which also explains how to confirm state versus local custody. Use the state action list alongside a local regulator’s records, routine inspections, and a current license check.
Search the PDF without relying on the storefront name
The linked retail-food action PDF had 44 pages when checked on October 5, 2026. Its columns identify the name, license number, city of residence, violation, disciplinary action, and date of action. Some entries put a file number in the identifier column. The document includes legal names and “d/b/a” trading names; a copied search result can lose the relationship between columns.
- Start from the agency’s landing page for its currently linked file.
- Use Find for the identifier; preserve leading zeros and its license or file label.
- Try legal and trading names, then a short name fragment if line breaks prevent a match.
- Read the visible row across page boundaries. Save the page, identifier, action, action date, and retrieval date.
The “City of Residence” column gives only a city. Confirm the actual site and operator before associating an entry with a particular branch. A similar name or city is too thin a match, and a blank search means only that the PDF had no matching entry.
How to read the DSHS action column apart from the violation
DSHS explains that disciplinary action can depend on severity, previous violations, correction efforts, harm, recurrence, and the individual case. Read a penalty amount as the outcome of that case rather than as a hygiene grade.
| What you have | What it answers | What still needs another record |
|---|---|---|
| Violation text or rule citations | Basis summarized in the listed case | Full observations, visit scope, and correction evidence |
| Action wording and date | Listed administrative outcome and its date | Underlying order or agreement, terms, and later disposition |
| Penalty amount | Monetary action recorded for that case | Whether it was paid, whether conditions were met, and present operation |
| Closure or revocation wording | A dated restrictive action | Later reopening approval or license outcome for the same establishment |
A payment agreement is a different action from a closure. An old emergency-closure entry shows the closure on that date; to learn whether the establishment remains closed today, obtain the actual restriction and later permission or disposition. The closure-record guide explains the documents to keep separate.
What “case closed” means in a DSHS enforcement file
The separate FY25 final-enforcement analysis, pages 10–12, distinguishes cases closed with monitoring, where terms and conditions remain pending, from cases closed without monitoring, where terms and conditions are met. Those are enforcement-case categories; whether food service stopped or resumed is a separate question.
The analysis also defines an Agreed Order as documenting a settlement and an Acceptance Order as the respondent accepting the proposed disciplinary action in the Department’s notice. These categories help you choose the underlying document to request; a particular establishment’s current status comes from its own records.
Get the underlying order and the later record
Use the DSHS retail-food Open Records page when you need more than the summary. It directs written Public Information Act requests to the Public Information Coordinator at OpenRecords@dshs.texas.gov and says requests should describe existing records clearly. Costs may apply.
Suggested wording: “Please provide the order or agreement corresponding to [name], [license or file number], [listed action date], together with later compliance, monitoring, or disposition records for that action through [end date].” Add the actual establishment address if known. If DSHS identifies a different custodian, follow that route rather than treating the absence of a state file as a clean record.
Keep the listed action, underlying order, correction or monitoring outcome, and current license evidence as separate dated records.
To learn whether a restaurant is operating today, check its current license with DSHS or the local regulator.
Texas DSHS pages checked October 5, 2026.