There are 78 Subway restaurant in Fairfax County. Reading through the information available onlone here, http://www.healthspace.com/Clients/VDH/Fairfax/Fairfax_Website.nsf, I was impressed to discover that the majority of them have zero health inspection violation.

A few more had a handful of minor infractions - stuff that needs to be corrected but doesn't directly affect your food safety.

Also, a few had one or two critical violations. However, there was a tie for first place for the most number of critical violations at 4. Still not as bad as Tippy Taco's (Centreville) last inspection with 6 critical violations.

The two dirtiest Subway locations are:

7868 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria (4 critical, 1 minor)

262-A2 Cedar Lane, Vienna (4 critical, 1 minor)

Ay yi yi! El Subway en Calle Cedar? Sucio?

No surprise about Richmond Hwy location. That whole area is so dirty, you get an STD just getting out of your car.

good to know that most of them are clean

Bob the Builder Wrote:
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> No surprise about Richmond Hwy location. That
> whole area is so dirty, you get an STD just
> getting out of your car.

No surprise on that one. The Cedar Lane in Vienna did surprise me alot.

Typically, your larger chain restaurant operations are going to have dedicated employees whose sole job focus is food and workplace safety. I noticed very few of them on the list with violations.

Looking through the database of the link provided by the OP, I find the worst offenders to be independent Chinese restaurants. Not all of them, but it;s a category that stands out.

The reports are better than I expected. Subway for the win! Well, except the two nasty locations.

The reason Subway has so few violations are they don't process/prepare or cook fresh product. That is not a bad thing, but many other restaurants deal w/ many fresh proteins/prep/cooking to temp-cooling to temp etc. Much more easy to be healthy and clean when you pull from a refrigerated bags.

Bob the Builder Wrote:
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> No surprise about Richmond Hwy location. That
> whole area is so dirty, you get an STD just
> getting out of your car.


ROFLMAO@ ALL of y'all thinking 5 violations in a fast food joint is a major thing

Hell the Charlie Chiangs in Herndon just got over FIFTEEN violations - http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1186035.html - yeah, that Worldgate area so dirty LoLz - you ppl with yr sterotypes - just HILARIOUS!!!!

All foods service are dirty. Cook your own.

Blah Blah Blah Wrote:
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> All foods service are dirty. Cook your own.

Have you ever read the reports on the germiest place in your house?...

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/germs-in-kitchen

Makes Donna's Food Dump seem like heaven!

What's Subway?