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South End Pizza & Grill
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 20, 2017
- address768 Tremont St, Roxbury 02118
Is South End Pizza & Grill clean?
South End Pizza & Grill is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 20, 2017. 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 South End Pizza & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 20, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contamination • walk in/properly store all raw chickencriticalSeparation Segregation Cross Contamination • walk in/properly store all raw chicken
- ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint • provide proper hair restraintsClean Cloths Hair Restraint • provide proper hair restraints
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • repair 3 door reach inNon-Food Contact Surfaces • repair 3 door reach in
- ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities • 3 bay sink/provide proper set up of sink and provide label to institutional sanitizer bottleDishwashng Facilities • 3 bay sink/provide proper set up of sink and provide label to institutional sanitizer bottle
- ⚠️Equipment Thermometers • basement/1 door reach in/provide accurate internal thermometerEquipment Thermometers • basement/1 door reach in/provide accurate internal thermometer
- ⚠️Test Kit Provided • provide proper chlorine test kitTest Kit Provided • provide proper chlorine test kit
- ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize • properly store all wiping cloths in a sanitizing solutionWiping Cloths Clean Sanitize • properly store all wiping cloths in a sanitizing solution
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean interior of pizza ovenNon-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean interior of pizza oven
- ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained • clean outside grounds around grease containersOutside Storage Improperly Maintained • clean outside grounds around grease containers
- ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals • front line/remove evidence of rodent droppings from floor area under soda storage and pizza warmer provide detailed extermination reportInsects Rodents Animals • front line/remove evidence of rodent droppings from floor area under soda storage and pizza warmer provide detailed extermination report
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors • clean floor area behind all cooking equipment kitchen/replace damaged floor tileImproper Maintenance of Floors • clean floor area behind all cooking equipment kitchen/replace damaged floor tile
- ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded • kitchen/provide proper light shieldsFixture's not properly shielded • kitchen/provide proper light shields
When was South End Pizza & Grill last inspected?
South End Pizza & Grill has 45 inspections on record going back to October 1, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 27, 2017 | — | |
| November 20, 2017 | Fail | |
| August 23, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2017 | Fail | |
| March 24, 2017 | Pass | |
| March 23, 2017 | Fail | |
| July 19, 2016 | Pass | |
| July 18, 2016 | Fail | |
| July 14, 2016 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2016 | Pass | |
| March 8, 2016 | Fail |
South End Pizza & Grill vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, 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, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.