Roxbury fried-chicken place shut due to gross kitchen

A Boston health inspector shut Crown Fried Chicken, 344 Warren St., this week for "gross unsanitary conditions" that included food soils and grease all over the kitchen, some of it "heavily encrusted" on cooking equipment, no soap or paper towels for workers to wash their hands with and rat droppings behind barrels used for collecting grease.

Also, sweet-potato pies and tomatoes were stored way too warm.

None of the workers on duty at the time of the inspection had any clue of proper cleaning procedures or steps to prevent food contamination - such as not storing raw hamburger right above lettuce - the inspector wrote.

The take-out place can re-open once it fixes the problems and passes another inspection.