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Mini Central Convenience
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 17, 2023
- address140 Harvard St, Dorchester 02124
Is Mini Central Convenience clean?
Mini Central Convenience is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 17, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Mini Central Convenience?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 17, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Evidence of chips bags chewed into by mice and evidence of mice droppings on chips shelving provide current detailed pest control report service. (staff removed chips from sales area)Controlling Pests (Pf) • Evidence of chips bags chewed into by mice and evidence of mice droppings on chips shelving provide current detailed pest control report service. (staff removed chips from sales area)
- ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Chip snacks store to low elevate 6 to 8" or higher.Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Chip snacks store to low elevate 6 to 8" or higher.
- ⚠️Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove cardboard box from inside refrigerator unit used as liner provde food service commercial grade equipment.Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove cardboard box from inside refrigerator unit used as liner provde food service commercial grade equipment.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Some floor tiles inside dry storage room missing replace or repair.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Some floor tiles inside dry storage room missing replace or repair.
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No paper towels inside restroom and paper towel dispenser broken repair.Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No paper towels inside restroom and paper towel dispenser broken repair.
When was Mini Central Convenience last inspected?
Mini Central Convenience has 15 inspections on record going back to February 4, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 26, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 17, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 28, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 20, 2022 | — | |
| January 13, 2022 | — | |
| January 6, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2021 | Fail | |
| March 24, 2021 | — | |
| March 15, 2021 | Fail |
Mini Central 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 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 17, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.