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Gerard's Sandwich Shop
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2016
- address772 Adams, Dorchester 02124
Is Gerard's Sandwich Shop clean?
Gerard's Sandwich Shop is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 12, 2016. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Gerard's Sandwich Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean all equipment throughout kitchen as needed..clean and degrease all cooking equipment...Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean all equipment throughout kitchen as needed..clean and degrease all cooking equipment...
- ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contamination • properly store all raw foods away from ready to eat or cooked foods...criticalSeparation Segregation Cross Contamination • properly store all raw foods away from ready to eat or cooked foods...
- ⚠️Food Protection • cover all foods in reachins...Food Protection • cover all foods in reachins...
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design • replace scored cutting boards...Food Contact Surfaces Design • replace scored cutting boards...
When was Gerard's Sandwich Shop last inspected?
Gerard's Sandwich Shop has 49 inspections on record going back to June 7, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 19, 2016 | — | |
| February 19, 2016 | — | |
| February 12, 2016 | Fail | |
| January 29, 2016 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2015 | Pass | |
| September 4, 2015 | Fail | |
| July 6, 2015 | — | |
| June 25, 2015 | Fail | |
| March 9, 2015 | — | |
| February 27, 2015 | Fail |
Gerard's Sandwich Shop 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 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 February 12, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.