• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 23, 2018 →
• address310 Bowdoin St, Dorchester 02122

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Is Jerk Restaurant clean?

Jerk Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 23, 2018. 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 Jerk Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Jerk Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Jerk Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to April 5, 2017.

Jerk Restaurant vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 23, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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