• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedAugust 28, 2012 →
• address2 Center Plaza, Boston 02108

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Is Plaza Deli clean?

Plaza Deli is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 28, 2012. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Plaza Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 28, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• ⚠️Adequate Number Frequency Vermin Proof
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Labeled Common Namecritical

Plaza Deli inspection and administrative history

Plaza Deli has 34 inspections on record going back to June 19, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 5 of these 7 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Plaza Deli vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 August 28, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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