• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 27, 2011 →
• address1041 Tremont St, Roxbury 02120

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Is Kennedy Fried Chicken clean?

Kennedy Fried Chicken is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 27, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Kennedy Fried Chicken?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
• ⚠️Dressing Rooms Clean/Lockers Provided

Kennedy Fried Chicken inspection and administrative history

Kennedy Fried Chicken has 20 inspections on record going back to October 29, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Kennedy Fried Chicken vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, 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.

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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 October 27, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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