Rainbow Food Shop

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 12, 2015 →
• address3201 Washington St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Rainbow Food Shop clean?

Rainbow Food Shop is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 12, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Rainbow Food Shop?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 12, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Rainbow Food Shop inspection and administrative history

Rainbow Food Shop has 19 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Rainbow Food Shop vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 13% of them.

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• ✕ Blue Hill House Of Pizza
  cooked · March 1, 2012
• ✓ Whoopie Monster
  clean · May 8, 2015
• ✓ Kueh
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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 March 12, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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