• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJanuary 18, 2017 →
• address80 Boylston St, Boston 02116

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Is Sodexo @ Emerson - Little Bldg. (2Nd Fl.) clean?

Sodexo @ Emerson - Little Bldg. (2Nd Fl.) is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 18, 2017. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Sodexo @ Emerson - Little Bldg. (2Nd Fl.)?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 18, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean

Sodexo @ Emerson - Little Bldg. (2Nd Fl.) inspection and administrative history

Sodexo @ Emerson - Little Bldg. (2Nd Fl.) has 16 inspections on record going back to August 1, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Sodexo @ Emerson - Little Bldg. (2Nd Fl.) vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, 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 January 18, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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