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Jay Bo Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 14, 2011
- address48 Winter St, Boston 02111
Is Jay Bo Cafe clean?
Jay Bo Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 14, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Jay Bo Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 14, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Clean fan screens in soda reach ins.Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Clean fan screens in soda reach ins.
- ⚠️PIC Performing Duties • Provide Food allergy Awareness certificatecriticalPIC Performing Duties • Provide Food allergy Awareness certificate
When was Jay Bo Cafe last inspected?
Jay Bo Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to January 15, 2008.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| June 14, 2011 | Pass | |
| June 3, 2011 | Fail | |
| November 22, 2010 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2010 | — | |
| October 1, 2009 | — | |
| December 18, 2008 | — | |
| January 15, 2008 | Fail |
Jay Bo Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 June 14, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.