• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 14, 2018 →
• address1224 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02125

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Is Papa Johns Pizza clean?

Papa Johns Pizza is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 14, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Papa Johns Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 14, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Papa Johns Pizza inspection and administrative history

Papa Johns Pizza has 17 inspections on record going back to July 22, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Papa Johns Pizza vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 June 14, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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