• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 7, 2013 →
• address36 Northampton St, Roxbury 02118

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Is Tom's Sandwich Shop clean?

Tom's Sandwich Shop is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 7, 2013. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Tom's Sandwich Shop?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 6 code checks as passed on May 7, 2013.

Tom's Sandwich Shop inspection and administrative history

Tom's Sandwich Shop has 19 inspections on record going back to August 5, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Tom's Sandwich Shop vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 May 7, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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