• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 12, 2016 →
• address772 Adams, Dorchester 02124

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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.

• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean

Gerard's Sandwich Shop inspection and administrative history

Gerard's Sandwich Shop has 49 inspections on record going back to June 7, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Gerard's Sandwich Shop vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 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.

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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 February 12, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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