• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 11, 2011 →
• address576 Washington St, Dorchester 02124

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Is Peoples Tropical Food clean?

Peoples Tropical Food is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 11, 2011. 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 Peoples Tropical Food?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 11, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Labeling of Ingredientscritical
• ⚠️Safe Food Handeling Instructions
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Floors Designed Constructed Installed
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Peoples Tropical Food inspection and administrative history

Peoples Tropical Food has 31 inspections on record going back to August 8, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Peoples Tropical Food 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 3% 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 January 11, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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