Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain)

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 6, 2017 →
• address1 Design Center Pl, Boston 02127

Is Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) clean?

Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 6, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain)?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2017. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) inspection and administrative history

Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) has 26 inspections on record going back to September 14, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 389 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 17 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 389 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 November 6, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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