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Day Shift Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 17, 2026
- address115 Federal St, Boston 02110
Is Day Shift Cafe clean?
Day Shift Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Day Shift Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Day Shift Cafe last inspected?
Day Shift Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2023.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| March 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 11, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 18, 2023 | Pass |
Day Shift Cafe 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 April 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.