• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJune 29, 2016 →
• address21 Massachusetts Av, Boston 02215

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Is Quality Mart clean?

Quality Mart is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 29, 2016. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Quality Mart?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 29, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Thermometers Provided
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Quality Mart inspection and administrative history

Quality Mart has 14 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 4 of these 7 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Quality Mart vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 505 tracked restaurants — 407 clean, 47 mid, 46 cooked.

Against the 505 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

Other spots in Back Bay

• ✓ Robin's Candy
  clean · May 22, 2014
• ✓ Crossroads Irish Pub
  clean · May 18, 2012
• ✓ Firehouse Subs
  clean · January 30, 2015
• ✓ Il Mondo Pizza
  clean · June 18, 2018
• ✓ Tasti D Lite
  clean · August 13, 2013
• ✓ Wich ! T
  clean · August 29, 2017

See every restaurant inspection in Back Bay →

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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 29, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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