Cooked?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
- ⚠️Food Protection
- ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
- ⚠️Installed and Maintained
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
- ⚠️Premises Maintained
Dandy Donuts inspection and administrative history
Dandy Donuts has 3 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2007.
December 30, 2012 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →September 18, 2007 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →September 5, 2007 Fail
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View full inspection →Dandy Donuts vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.
Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 September 5, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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