People Tropical Food Corp is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on September 11, 2007. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 11, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
People Tropical Food Corp has 4 inspections on record going back to September 6, 2007.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 7, 2008 | closed by the city | |
| March 5, 2008 | — | |
| September 11, 2007 | Pass | |
| September 6, 2007 | Fail |
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
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 September 11, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.