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J.P. Licks @ Southbay
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 6, 2026
- address20 District Av, Dorchester 02125
Is J.P. Licks @ Southbay clean?
J.P. Licks @ Southbay is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at J.P. Licks @ Southbay?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • The vanilla ice cream soft serve has high count of 150 or more Coliform. Remove the machine out of service until the coliform count is below 50 and a report is provided to health department from a certified lab.(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • The vanilla ice cream soft serve has high count of 150 or more Coliform. Remove the machine out of service until the coliform count is below 50 and a report is provided to health department from a certified lab.
When was J.P. Licks @ Southbay last inspected?
J.P. Licks @ Southbay has 37 inspections on record going back to May 4, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 6, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 20, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 23, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 29, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 21, 2024 | Fail |
J.P. Licks @ Southbay vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 January 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.