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Shake Shack
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 10, 2025
- address332 Washington St, Boston 02108
Is Shake Shack clean?
Shake Shack is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 10, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Shake Shack?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • 2 door reach-in unit observed tomato slice onions and lettuce with elevated temp of 45F. Provide proper cold holding of 41F and belowcritical(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • 2 door reach-in unit observed tomato slice onions and lettuce with elevated temp of 45F. Provide proper cold holding of 41F and below
When was Shake Shack last inspected?
Shake Shack has 25 inspections on record going back to October 30, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 26, 2026 | — | |
| December 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 23, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 29, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| December 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 22, 2023 | — |
Shake Shack vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 December 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.