Ming Kee Fresh Poultry

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 10, 2007
• address52 Kneeland St, Boston 02111

Is Ming Kee Fresh Poultry clean?

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 10, 2007. 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 Ming Kee Fresh Poultry?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 10, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design • Replace worn cutting boards
  Food Contact Surfaces Design • Replace worn cutting boards
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • Provide refrigeration for orders waiting for customer pick up
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces • Provide refrigeration for orders waiting for customer pick up
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize • Employees not changing rubber gloves inbetween handling live/fresh killed poultry and small office equipment packing customers orders.
  Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize • Employees not changing rubber gloves inbetween handling live/fresh killed poultry and small office equipment packing customers orders.
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean barrels shelving sinks • clean shelving and fixtures attached to the wall
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean barrels shelving sinks • clean shelving and fixtures attached to the wall
• ⚠️Location Accessible • Hand Sink not accessible - being used as a shelfcritical
  Location Accessible • Hand Sink not accessible - being used as a shelf
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
  Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

When was Ming Kee Fresh Poultry last inspected?

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry has 6 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2007.

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 10, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.