• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 23, 2011 →
• address327 Washington St, Boston 02108

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Is Mcdonalds clean?

Mcdonalds is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 23, 2011. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Mcdonalds?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 23, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Mop Sink not Provided

Mcdonalds inspection and administrative history

Mcdonalds has 23 inspections on record going back to July 13, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Mcdonalds vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

Other spots in Downtown

• ✕ Mcdonalds
  mid · June 14, 2011
• ✓ Sbarros Pizza
  clean · November 12, 2010
• ✓ Wongs
  clean · November 17, 2017
• ✓ Moon Villa
  clean · February 22, 2007
• ✓ Cheng Dwong Seafood Market
  clean · November 20, 2007
• ✓ Harvard Club Of Boston
  clean · October 24, 2019

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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 November 23, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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