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Cold Stone Creamery
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score24 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedOctober 2, 2025
- address157-14 Crossbay Boulevard, Queens 11414
- cuisineFrozen Desserts
- phone7188436977
Is Cold Stone Creamery clean?
Cold Stone Creamery is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 2, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Cold Stone Creamery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Cold Stone Creamery last inspected?
Cold Stone Creamery has 5 inspections on record going back to January 22, 2024, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 17, 2026 | — | |
| October 2, 2025 | Grade B | 24 pts |
| June 2, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 21 pts |
| August 22, 2024 | Grade C | 33 pts |
| January 22, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
Cold Stone Creamery vs Lindenwood-Howard Beach
Lindenwood-Howard Beach runs 84% clean across 61 tracked restaurants — 49 clean, 3 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 61 spots Cooked tracks in Lindenwood-Howard Beach, this one comes out cleaner than 10% of them.
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How New York grades restaurants
New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0–13 points earns an A, 14–27 a B, and 28 or more a C. Every restaurant is inspected at least once a year, and the letter has to be posted in the window. A restaurant that scores 14 or more on the first inspection of a cycle does not get a letter right away — it stays “Grade Pending” until a re-inspection settles it, which is why some spots here show an hourglass instead of a letter. Cooked only ever shows a letter the city actually posted; we never infer one from a score.
Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via NYC Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.