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Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 23, 2015
- address201 Brookline Av, Boston 02215
Is Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe clean?
Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 23, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 23, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • The low temperature dishwasher is not reaching the proper sanitizer levels. Provide proper sanitizer levels to ensure that equipment is cleaned and sanitized.criticalFood Contact Surfaces Clean • The low temperature dishwasher is not reaching the proper sanitizer levels. Provide proper sanitizer levels to ensure that equipment is cleaned and sanitized.
When was Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe last inspected?
Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe has 15 inspections on record going back to September 25, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 23, 2015 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2015 | Fail | |
| March 17, 2014 | — | |
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| June 17, 2013 | Pass | |
| June 7, 2013 | Fail | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| June 4, 2012 | — | |
| April 11, 2011 | Pass | |
| May 4, 2010 | — | |
| August 3, 2009 | — |
Panera Bread Bakery/Cafe vs Fenway
Fenway runs 89% clean across 433 tracked restaurants — 379 clean, 23 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 433 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, 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 January 23, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.