Board of Health Grants Legends Music Variance With Strings Attached at Xfinity Center

MANSFIELD — June 11, 2026 — Mansfield Board of Health unanimously granted Legends Music LLC a food safety management variance at Xfinity Center, conditioned on receipt of a written site-wide management plan. The board, which includes Public Health Director Amy Ciociolo, approved the variance from Mansfield Food Protection Regulation 614-2023, which would otherwise require a separate certified manager and permit at each of the venue's roughly ten food service locations at 885 South Main Street. Legends regional Vice President Amanda Parker said the company has seven Serv-Safe manager-certified employees on site and has invested more than $700,000 in food and beverage infrastructure this season, including ten new fryers, a renovated commissary, and a real-time temperature monitoring system. Regional inspector Paul Gilpin, citing a pre-season inspection in which outdoor grills were found uncleaned and food was being stored on an unpermitted site, pushed the board to enforce a new rule requiring all pre-operation inspections to clear 72 hours before the first food delivery, not the first show — a policy Ciociolo said has been confirmed with both the town manager and the fire chief. Separately, the board heard from West Mansfield Variety owner Hiram Patel after two consecutive inspections turned up expired milk, eggs, and damaged canned goods available for retail sale, with Patel committing to biweekly shelf checks going forward.