• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 20, 2009 →
• address116 Washington St, Dorchester 02121

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Is Royal Fried Chicken clean?

Royal Fried Chicken is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 20, 2009. 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 Royal Fried Chicken?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 20, 2009, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Re-use of Single Service Articles
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting

Royal Fried Chicken inspection and administrative history

Royal Fried Chicken has 12 inspections on record going back to October 30, 2008.

Royal Fried Chicken 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 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 November 20, 2009. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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