Au Bon Pain

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 18, 2022
• address75 Francis St, Boston 02115

Is Au Bon Pain clean?

Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 18, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 18, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Items in the right side 2 drawer open top unit reading 50-53F for 60-90 min per PIC.Maintain cold holding 41F or below. PIC removed items to cool/hold 41F or below. Unit out of service until repairs are complete. Discussed cold holding with the PICcritical
  (A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Items in the right side 2 drawer open top unit reading 50-53F for 60-90 min per PIC.Maintain cold holding 41F or below. PIC removed items to cool/hold 41F or below. Unit out of service until repairs are complete. Discussed cold holding with the PIC
• ⚠️Food Labels (Pf) • Retail grab n go items missing proper labels.Provide proper labels listing all ingredients.
  Food Labels (Pf) • Retail grab n go items missing proper labels.Provide proper labels listing all ingredients.
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C) • Provide working internal thermometers in all refrigeration units & walk in.
  Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C) • Provide working internal thermometers in all refrigeration units & walk in.
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Repair 2 drawer right side open top sandwich unit to maintain cold holding 41F or below
  Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Repair 2 drawer right side open top sandwich unit to maintain cold holding 41F or below
• ⚠️(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Clean the interior of the milk/cream dispensing unit to remove built up soils. Clean the retail cookie shelving units to remove food debris
  (B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Clean the interior of the milk/cream dispensing unit to remove built up soils. Clean the retail cookie shelving units to remove food debris
• ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Remove/discard all empty boxes from trash location.
  Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Remove/discard all empty boxes from trash location.
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Live roaches observed under/around single door coca cola unit.Provide full pest report upon re-inspection. Clean/sanitize location
  Controlling Pests (Pf) • Live roaches observed under/around single door coca cola unit.Provide full pest report upon re-inspection. Clean/sanitize location

When was Au Bon Pain last inspected?

Au Bon Pain has 58 inspections on record going back to May 21, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Au Bon Pain vs Longwood

Longwood runs 78% clean across 203 tracked restaurants — 153 clean, 19 mid, 23 cooked.

Against the 203 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 18, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.