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Olive Garden
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 18, 2024
- address2 Times Square, Manhattan 10036
- cuisineItalian
- phone2123333254
Is Olive Garden clean?
Olive Garden is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 18, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Olive Garden?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️conditions that attract pestsGarbage receptacle not pest or water resistant, with tight-fitting lids, and covered except while in active use. Garbage receptacle and cover not cleaned after emptying and prior to reuse. Garbage, refuse and other solid and liquid waste not collected, stored, removed and disposed of so as to prevent a nuisance.
- 🪰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.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
When was Olive Garden last inspected?
Olive Garden has 4 inspections on record going back to March 28, 2022, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2024 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| February 28, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 31 pts |
| October 5, 2022 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| March 28, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 23 pts |
Olive Garden vs Midtown-Midtown South
Midtown-Midtown South runs 84% clean across 2,257 tracked restaurants — 1,596 clean, 96 mid, 216 cooked.
Against the 2,257 spots Cooked tracks in Midtown-Midtown South, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 December 18, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.