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Dot Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 23, 2017
- address1459 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02122
Is Dot Cafe clean?
Dot Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 23, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Dot Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 23, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Protection • Bucket of carrots and other vegetable on floor . RemoveFood Protection • Bucket of carrots and other vegetable on floor . Remove
- ⚠️Location Accessible • Sanitizer buckets in both handsinks. Remove handsinks are for handwashing only.criticalLocation Accessible • Sanitizer buckets in both handsinks. Remove handsinks are for handwashing only.
- ⚠️Toxic Items: Original Container • Chlorine sanitizer tested over 200PPM in three compartment sink. Drain and refill water and sanitizer to 50PPM.criticalToxic Items: Original Container • Chlorine sanitizer tested over 200PPM in three compartment sink. Drain and refill water and sanitizer to 50PPM.
When was Dot Cafe last inspected?
Dot Cafe has 14 inspections on record going back to December 9, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 15, 2017 | Fail | |
| January 12, 2017 | — | |
| August 29, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2016 | Fail | |
| February 10, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 4, 2016 | Fail | |
| February 3, 2016 | Fail | |
| September 16, 2015 | Pass | |
| September 9, 2015 | Fail | |
| April 9, 2015 | Pass | |
| April 2, 2015 | Fail |
Dot Cafe vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 May 23, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.