• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 24, 2018 →
• address101 Huntington Av, Boston 02199

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Is 5 Napkin Burger clean?

5 Napkin Burger is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 24, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at 5 Napkin Burger?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 24, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers

5 Napkin Burger inspection and administrative history

5 Napkin Burger has 41 inspections on record going back to March 18, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

5 Napkin Burger vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 505 tracked restaurants — 406 clean, 49 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 505 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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How Boston grades restaurants

Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 24, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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