Royal Fried Chicken

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

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 • Raw frozen fish fillets being defrosted at room temperature. Discontinue and ensure proper defrosting method are in place.
  PHF's Properly Thawed • Raw frozen fish fillets being defrosted at room temperature. Discontinue and ensure proper defrosting method are in place.
• ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint • Employee observed not wearing hair restraint while preparing sandwiches and other foods. Provide hair restraints for all emoloyees preparing foods.
  Clean Cloths Hair Restraint • Employee observed not wearing hair restraint while preparing sandwiches and other foods. Provide hair restraints for all emoloyees preparing foods.
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers • No equipment thermometer inside of small 2 door cooler. Provide.
  Equipment Thermometers • No equipment thermometer inside of small 2 door cooler. Provide.
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Rack above 3 bay sink visibly soiled. Clean to remove. Handles of 2 door cooler with cacked on foods. Clean to remove. Storage shelves in basement visibly soiled. Clean to remove.
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Rack above 3 bay sink visibly soiled. Clean to remove. Handles of 2 door cooler with cacked on foods. Clean to remove. Storage shelves in basement visibly soiled. Clean to remove.
• ⚠️Re-use of Single Service Articles • Coleslaw containers being re-used to store chicken. Discontunue andcuse food grade containers.
  Re-use of Single Service Articles • Coleslaw containers being re-used to store chicken. Discontunue andcuse food grade containers.
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained • No running water at hand sink in kitchen. Provide. Pipe under 3 bay sink leaking. Repair or replace.
  Installed and Maintained • No running water at hand sink in kitchen. Provide. Pipe under 3 bay sink leaking. Repair or replace.
• ⚠️Location Accessible • Large food scoop and chain blocking hand wash sink. Discontinue and ensure all sinks are accessible.critical
  Location Accessible • Large food scoop and chain blocking hand wash sink. Discontinue and ensure all sinks are accessible.
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage • No soap or dispenser at hand wash sink in kitchen. Provide. No paper towels in restroom. Provide.
  Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage • No soap or dispenser at hand wash sink in kitchen. Provide. No paper towels in restroom. Provide.
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded • Lights above preparation table not shielded. Provide.
  Fixture's not properly shielded • Lights above preparation table not shielded. Provide.
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting • 2 Lights out in kitchen area. Replace.
  Inadequate Lighting • 2 Lights out in kitchen area. Replace.

When was Royal Fried Chicken last inspected?

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

Royal Fried Chicken vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.

Against the 708 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.

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.