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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.
When was Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) last inspected?
Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) has 26 inspections on record going back to September 14, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 12, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 5, 2016 | Fail | |
| January 21, 2015 | Pass | |
| January 7, 2015 | Fail | |
| January 28, 2014 | Pass | |
| January 14, 2014 | Fail | |
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| March 26, 2013 | Pass | |
| March 26, 2013 | Pass | |
| March 12, 2013 | Fail |
Designer Cafe'(Au Bon Pain) vs South Boston Waterfront
South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 391 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 391 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 November 6, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.