• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedApril 18, 2018 →
• address560 Washington St, Dorchester 02124

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Is Subway clean?

Subway is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 18, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Subway?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 18, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Single Service Articles Stored Dispensed
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Subway inspection and administrative history

Subway has 19 inspections on record going back to February 5, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Subway vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

Other spots in Dorchester

• ✕ Puritan Restaurant
  mid · May 7, 2021
• ✓ Talbot Dollar & Grocery Store
  clean · February 12, 2013
• ✓ My Sisters Crawfish
  clean · January 30, 2019
• ✓ Auntie Vie's Bakery & Cafe
  clean · November 13, 2015
• ✓ Coffee Cup (Ashmont Station Southbound Side)
  clean · June 15, 2026
• ✓ Mud House
  clean · June 4, 2026

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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 April 18, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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