• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 26, 2024 →
• address174 Newbury St, Boston 02116

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Is Ben & Jerry's clean?

Ben & Jerry's is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 26, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Ben & Jerry's?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 3 code checks as passed on March 26, 2024.

Ben & Jerry's inspection and administrative history

Ben & Jerry's has 49 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Ben & Jerry's vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 18% of them.

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• ✕ Sugar Heaven
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• ✓ Lir
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• ✓ 74 Ltd.
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• ✓ Teuscher Chocolates
  clean · April 29, 2024

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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 March 26, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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