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Taco Bell
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 22, 2025
- address95-06 63 Drive, Queens 11374
- cuisineTex-Mex
- phone9294871150
Is Taco Bell clean?
Taco Bell is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 22, 2025. 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 Taco Bell?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 22, 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.
- ⚠️Sodium Warning icon not posted on menus, menu boards or food tags for food items that contain 2300mg or more of sodium in a food service establishment that is 1 of 15 or more outlets operating the same type of business nationally under common ownership or control, or as a franchise or doing business under the same name, for each menu item that is served in portions, the size and content of which are standardizedSodium Warning icon not posted on menus, menu boards or food tags for food items that contain 2300mg or more of sodium in a food service establishment that is 1 of 15 or more outlets operating the same type of business nationally under common ownership or control, or as a franchise or doing business under the same name, for each menu item that is served in portions, the size and content of which are standardized
- 🍴utensils stored sketchycriticalSanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
When was Taco Bell last inspected?
Taco Bell has 4 inspections on record going back to December 8, 2022, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| August 28, 2024 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| June 3, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 9 pts |
| December 8, 2022 | Grade A | 12 pts |
Taco Bell vs Rego Park
Rego Park runs 84% clean across 71 tracked restaurants — 56 clean, 3 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 71 spots Cooked tracks in Rego Park, 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 August 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.