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Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks
- gradeGrade A ⏳
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 4, 2025
- address131-35 Avery Avenue, Queens 11355
- cuisineAmerican
- phone7188862222
Is Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks clean?
Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks is currently Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 4, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
What did inspectors find at Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 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.
- 🧻grimy wiping clothscriticalWiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
When was Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks last inspected?
Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks has 3 inspections on record going back to August 17, 2023, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 20, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 40 pts |
| March 4, 2025 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| August 17, 2023 | Grade A | 12 pts |
Rocco's Italian Sausages & Cheese Steaks vs Flushing
Flushing runs 64% clean across 625 tracked restaurants — 338 clean, 60 mid, 132 cooked.
Against the 625 spots Cooked tracks in Flushing, this one comes out cleaner than 68% 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 March 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.