Piperi Restaurant

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeEating & Drinking w/ Take Out
• failed findings3
• critical findings0

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Failed findings

• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
  Inspector note: Inadequate refrigeration on site for volume of business observed. Establishment with multiple cook/ prep/ chill processess without adeaquate cold holding equipment. Provide additional refrigeration. CFPM to submit documentation to health division. In process of aquiring additional space from landlord to accomodate additional refrigeration. Establishment is purchasing ice in the meantime to properly chill PHF foods properly until additional refrigeration installed. Owner must provide health division with documents stating timeframe of completion for additional NSF grade commercial refrigeration ASAP
  code 04-3-501.15/4-301.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
  Inspector note: Cookline handsink clogged. Repair. Additional handsink being utilized until drain can be repaired on second cookline sink. Spoke with owner sink is in process of being repaired coordinating with landlord to email health division all pertinent documents. Handsink must be repaired ASAP.
  code 29-5-201/02.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
  Inspector note: Floors in dishroom missing grout. regrout floors.
  code 36-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail

Checks marked passed

• ✓Hot Holdingcritical
  Inspector note: Beef at servicing line 110F. Hot holding for PHF foods at 140F or above.
  code 03-3-501.16*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Pass
• ✓Adequate Handwashing/Where/When/Howcritical
  Inspector note: Workers not washing hands with proper frequency. Provide adequate handwashing between tasks.
  code 12-2-301.12-.15*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Pass
• ✓Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
  Inspector note: Observed food worker use stick blender to make hummus and rinse off in prep sink and store as clean. Wash/rinse/sanitize/air dry all food contact surfaces after each use.
  code 20-4-703.11*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Pass
• ✓PIC Performing Dutiescritical
  Inspector note: CFPM not overseeing proper cooling methods hot holding temperatures establishment pemit and general facility maintenance. Provide active managerial control as it is defined in 1999 food code. • No current 2017 Health. permit posted. Provide current health permit for 2017 or proof of payment.
  code M-2-103.11*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Pass
• ✓Premises Maintained
  Inspector note: Back room accumulated with plastic buckets of waste oil and cardboard boxes. Remove.
  code 42-6-501.113/.114* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Fail on January 20, 2017: 3 findings recurred. 5 previous findings did not recur.

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About this record

This record comes from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Analyze Boston.