Arby's Health Inspection Records in Three Places

Arby's restaurants can be charted in three of the ten places FastFoodFact covers: Florida, New York State outside New York City, Suffolk and Erie, and Louisville. In each one, the routine inspections recorded at Arby's restaurants are set against that place's own local rate. The three places count three different events, so the three Arby's figures are read one at a time and never put in order.

Three places, three different events

Each health department writes down a different result, so "the rate" means something different in each place.

• Florida counts routine inspections that recorded at least one high-priority violation. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) defines a high-priority violation as one that "could contribute directly to a foodborne illness or injury". See What a High-Priority Violation Means in Florida.
• New York State counts routine inspections that recorded at least one critical (red) violation. The state health department says red violations "relate directly to factors that could lead to foodborne illness". FastFoodFact does not treat a red violation as a grade. See New York State's Red Violations, and Why They Are Not a Grade.
• Louisville counts routine inspections that ended in a C grade, meaning the restaurant failed the inspection and a follow-up visit was required. See A Score of 95 and a Grade of C: How Louisville Inspections Work.

What the records show for Arby's

Each row is a separate comparison against the local rate for the same place. The periods differ by place because each agency's file covers a different span.

Place	What is counted	Arby's	95% range	Local rate	Position
Florida	At least one high-priority violation	38.5% (260 of 675 routine inspections)	34.9% to 42.2%	58.2% of 267,294 routine inspections	Below the local rate
New York State (outside New York City, Suffolk and Erie)	At least one critical (red) violation	4.9% (9 of 185 routine inspections)	2.6% to 9.0%	25.1% of 115,627 routine inspections	Below the local rate
Louisville	A C grade	3.2% (4 of 125 routine inspections)	1.3% to 7.9%	5.0% of 19,067 routine inspections	Overlaps the local rate

The periods are:

• Florida: routine inspections recorded 2023-07-01 through 2026-09-20, pulled 2026-09-21.
• New York State: routine inspections recorded 2023-01-01 through 2026-09-11, pulled 2026-09-21.
• Louisville: routine inspections recorded 2021-09-20 through 2026-09-18, pulled 2026-09-21.

"Below" means the whole 95% range for Arby's sits under the local rate. "Overlaps" means the range covers the local rate, so the two are not separated and neither is better. In Louisville, 4 of 125 routine inspections is a small count, and its range from 1.3% to 7.9% covers the local rate of 5.0%.

FastFoodFact's tally for Arby's through the 2026-09-21 snapshots is below the local rate in 2 of the 3 places where it can be charted, overlapping in 1, and above in none. The site covers 10 places in all.

Why the three rates cannot be lined up

Florida's 38.5% and Louisville's 3.2% are not a gap between two cities. One counts any high-priority violation and the other counts an inspection that ended in a C grade. Because the events are different, each figure is shown only against its own place's rate.

The same reasoning applies to the local rates. Florida's is 58.2% and Louisville's is 5.0%, and neither says Florida's restaurants are worse than Louisville's. They are different counts.

What these figures do not show

• Not one restaurant. A figure describes the Arby's locations that appear in that place's file during that period. It says nothing about any single restaurant and nothing about the brand as a whole.
• Not management quality alone. Chains differ in food-handling risk, so the bands do not measure management quality alone.
• Routine inspections only. Re-inspections, callbacks, follow-ups and complaint-driven visits are left out of every count above.
• Name matching. FastFoodFact assigns restaurants to a chain by a published matching table, and a location the table does not match is not counted.
• No national figure. The three places are not combined, averaged or ranked into a national number, because their inspection systems are different.

Where to see the full record

The Arby's page lays out the chain's band in each place beside the local rate, with the number of inspections behind each one. To put Arby's beside another chain in a single place, read How to Compare Two Fast Food Chains Without Fooling Yourself first.

This guide is informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026.

— Eric, FastFoodFact founder

Informational only. This is a reading of public inspection records, not food-safety, legal or dining advice, and no figure here is a grade of any individual restaurant. A figure describes what inspectors recorded across a set of visits in one place over one period — not a brand, and not the location near you.

Last reviewed: October 2026 · Against the sources listed above.