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Jones Hill Convenience
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 27, 2025
- address20 Hancock St, Dorchester 02125
Is Jones Hill Convenience clean?
Jones Hill Convenience is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 27, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Jones Hill Convenience?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Floor Covering Mats and Duckboards (C) • Remove cardboard boxes as floor mat and provide comercial grade equipment.Floor Covering Mats and Duckboards (C) • Remove cardboard boxes as floor mat and provide comercial grade equipment.
- ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Remove clutter from basement area near stairs.Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Remove clutter from basement area near stairs.
- ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Observed evidence of kitty and kitty food animals not allowed on premises remove.Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Observed evidence of kitty and kitty food animals not allowed on premises remove.
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Some floor tiles missing infront of service counter repair.Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Some floor tiles missing infront of service counter repair.
When was Jones Hill Convenience last inspected?
Jones Hill Convenience has 28 inspections on record going back to December 27, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2025 | — | |
| October 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 26, 2025 | — | |
| July 25, 2025 | — | |
| June 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 17, 2024 | — | |
| May 31, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2023 | — |
Jones Hill Convenience 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 12% 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 October 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.