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Jak Pizzeria
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 19, 2023
- address50 Maverick Sq, East Boston 02128
Is Jak Pizzeria clean?
Jak Pizzeria is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 19, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Jak Pizzeria?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 19, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Walls and Ceilings Attachments (C) • Hood tag expired in September 2021 / CS ventilation is scheduled to come out on 2/21/2022.Walls and Ceilings Attachments (C) • Hood tag expired in September 2021 / CS ventilation is scheduled to come out on 2/21/2022.
When was Jak Pizzeria last inspected?
Jak Pizzeria has 25 inspections on record going back to November 6, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 19, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 23, 2022 | Fail | |
| November 2, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 11, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 2, 2022 | Fail | |
| July 28, 2021 | Pass |
Jak Pizzeria vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 19, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.