Dandy Donuts

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 5, 2007
• address220 Dorchester Av, South Boston 02127

Is Dandy Donuts clean?

Dandy Donuts is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 5, 2007. 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 Dandy Donuts?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 5, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
  Cold Holding
• ⚠️Food Protection
  Food Protection
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
  Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
  Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
  Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
  Premises Maintained

When was Dandy Donuts last inspected?

Dandy Donuts has 3 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2007.

Dandy Donuts vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 September 5, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.