Cosi No. 305

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 14, 2019
• address640 Atlantic Av, Boston 02111

Is Cosi No. 305 clean?

Cosi No. 305 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 14, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cosi No. 305?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 14, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Tongs to take things out of oven stored on seperation of the hand wash station discontinue to protect from contamination
  In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Tongs to take things out of oven stored on seperation of the hand wash station discontinue to protect from contamination
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C) • Wiping cloths stored on counter store in sanitizer at proper parts per millions
  Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C) • Wiping cloths stored on counter store in sanitizer at proper parts per millions

When was Cosi No. 305 last inspected?

Cosi No. 305 has 10 inspections on record going back to July 13, 2017.

Cosi No. 305 vs Downtown

Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 August 14, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.