Cooked?24 Mercado/Food Mart
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 14, 2020 →
- address5226-5240 S Western Ave, Chicago 60609
- cuisineGrocery Store
Is 24 Mercado/Food Mart clean?
24 Mercado/Food Mart is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 14, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at 24 Mercado/Food Mart?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 14, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒staff working while sickcriticalProcedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
- 🧻grimy wiping clothsWiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored
When was 24 Mercado/Food Mart last inspected?
24 Mercado/Food Mart has 2 inspections on record going back to May 22, 2018.
May 14, 2020 Pass w/ Conditions
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View full inspection →24 Mercado/Food Mart vs Gage Park
Gage Park runs 81% clean across 207 tracked restaurants — 165 clean, 32 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 207 spots Cooked tracks in Gage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
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How Chicago grades restaurants
Chicago does not use letter grades. Every inspection ends in one of three official results: Pass, Pass with Conditions, or Fail. Pass with Conditions means violations were found but corrected on the spot or under a deadline — the restaurant is open, with homework. A Fail means serious violations went uncorrected, and it usually brings a re-inspection within days. Chicago also flags “priority” violations, the ones most likely to actually make someone sick. Cooked reads Pass as clean, Pass with Conditions as mid, and Fail as cooked, and shows the itemized violations behind each result.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 14, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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