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Wendy's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2026
- address71 Summer St, Boston 02111
Is Wendy's clean?
Wendy's is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Wendy's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P) • Provide an air gap at the 2 bay prep sink.criticalBackflow Prevention (P) • Provide an air gap at the 2 bay prep sink.
When was Wendy's last inspected?
Wendy's has 33 inspections on record going back to February 11, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 28, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 21, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 15, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 8, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| October 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 4, 2023 | — | |
| October 24, 2022 | — |
Wendy's 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 January 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.