Jennie's Cafe Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 26, 2013
• address830 Blue Hill Av, Dorchester 02124

Is Jennie's Cafe Restaurant clean?

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 26, 2013. 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 Jennie's Cafe Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • provide a sanitizer and test kit for three compartment sinkcritical
  Food Contact Surfaces Clean • provide a sanitizer and test kit for three compartment sink
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean all shelves through-out all prep areas and above three compartment sink clean interior/exterior of refrigerator and floor freezer in storage area of basement clean interior/exterior of all refrigerators and freezer through-out basement
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean all shelves through-out all prep areas and above three compartment sink clean interior/exterior of refrigerator and floor freezer in storage area of basement clean interior/exterior of all refrigerators and freezer through-out basement
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors • CLEAN FLOOR through-out front counter area clean floor under behind and between all equipment and shelves through-out cooking area all prep areas and warewashing area clean floor through-out storage area of basement clean floor through-out basement
  Improper Maintenance of Floors • CLEAN FLOOR through-out front counter area clean floor under behind and between all equipment and shelves through-out cooking area all prep areas and warewashing area clean floor through-out storage area of basement clean floor through-out basement
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • clean screen on rear screen door
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • clean screen on rear screen door
• ⚠️Rooms and Equipment Vented • hood needs to be inspected - asap
  Rooms and Equipment Vented • hood needs to be inspected - asap
• ⚠️Premises Maintained • clean area through-out rear of bldg. remove all un-necessary articles from basement
  Premises Maintained • clean area through-out rear of bldg. remove all un-necessary articles from basement

When was Jennie's Cafe Restaurant last inspected?

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2012.

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.

Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 August 26, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.