Scissors & Pie

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 9, 2015
• address225 Newbury St, Boston 02116

Is Scissors & Pie clean?

Scissors & Pie is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 9, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Scissors & Pie?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 9, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cooling • Eggplants prepared the previous day in the refrigerating unit at serving line 45F. Cool properly .critical
  Cooling • Eggplants prepared the previous day in the refrigerating unit at serving line 45F. Cool properly .
• ⚠️Three Compartment Sink • Soiled dishes stored inside the wash bay. Provide proper soiled dishes racks.
  Three Compartment Sink • Soiled dishes stored inside the wash bay. Provide proper soiled dishes racks.
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Slicer with dried up food debris. Interior of Ice machine soiled. Clean and sanitize properly.
  Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Slicer with dried up food debris. Interior of Ice machine soiled. Clean and sanitize properly.
• ⚠️Separation/Sanitizer Criteria • Sanitizer solution QUATs registered over 400ppm. PIC corrected it. Maintain between 200-400ppm.critical
  Separation/Sanitizer Criteria • Sanitizer solution QUATs registered over 400ppm. PIC corrected it. Maintain between 200-400ppm.

When was Scissors & Pie last inspected?

Scissors & Pie has 7 inspections on record going back to March 3, 2014.

Scissors & Pie vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.

Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 March 9, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.