• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 25, 2019 →
• address226 Causeway St, Boston 02114

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Is Equal Exchange clean?

Equal Exchange is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 25, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Equal Exchange?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 5 code checks as passed on June 25, 2019.

Equal Exchange inspection and administrative history

Equal Exchange has 36 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Equal Exchange vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 June 25, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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