Hard Rock Cafe

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeEating & Drinking
• failed findings10
• critical findings1

← Back to the current restaurant page

Failed findings

• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
  Inspector note: Use hand sink for hand washing only. Clean sink and remove utensils
  code 31-5-204/05.11*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Inspector note: Clean interior of convection oven
  code 22-4-601/602.11** · serious findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
  Inspector note: Remove evidence of rodent droppings in function room closet. Provide extermination service and provide report with details for dealing with rodent issue.
  code 35-6-501.111/.115** · serious findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Food Container Labels
  Inspector note: Provide covered Certainly for all opened bulk food items
  code 02-3-602.11-.12/3-302.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
  Inspector note: Replace or resurface worn and heavily stained cutting boards to cold units on hot line
  code 14-4-202.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
  Inspector note: Do not use milk crates as storage Containers. Provide dram looses for all Soda dispensers and ensue that they drain into a drain.
  code 15-4-202.16* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
  Inspector note: Provide proper storage of wiping Cloths
  code 21-3-304.14* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
  Inspector note: Replace cold water handle to hand sink at dishroom Replier leak to hand sink at prep area
  code 29-5-201/02.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Floors Designed Constructed Installed
  Inspector note: clean floor of function room closet Clean floor of freezer
  code 36-6-201.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
  Inspector note: Provide proper storage of brooms. Keep off floor and away from prep area
  code 42-6-501.113/.114* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass on May 25, 2010: 10 findings appeared for the first time.

Browse this restaurant's inspections

More restaurants in North End

• ✓ Dough East Boston
  clean · 20 Maverick St · inspected May 3, 2017
• ✓ Government Ctr. Farmer's Market
  clean · 1 City Hall Plaza · inspected July 3, 2007
• ✓ Blockbuster Video
  cooked · 184 Border St · inspected January 21, 2011
• ✓ Cheers (Retail)
  clean · 200 Faneuil Hall Market Pl · inspected January 17, 2018
• ✓ Red Barn Coffee Roasters
  clean · 1 Faneuil Hall Sq · inspected July 14, 2010
• ✓ Cactus Grill
  clean · 42 Maverick Sq · inspected June 10, 2026

See every restaurant in North End →

About this record

This record comes from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Analyze Boston.