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Amatos Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 8, 2022
- address953 W Willow St, Chicago 60614
Is Amatos Pizza clean?
Amatos Pizza is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 8, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Amatos Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 8, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • 3-307.11: A SPLASH GUARD IS NEEDED BETWEEN THE FRYER AND HANDWASHING SINK IN THE KITCHEN. THE SURFACE MUST BE SMOOTH, CLEANABLE, AND NON-ABSORBENT SURFACE.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • 3-307.11: A SPLASH GUARD IS NEEDED BETWEEN THE FRYER AND HANDWASHING SINK IN THE KITCHEN. THE SURFACE MUST BE SMOOTH, CLEANABLE, AND NON-ABSORBENT SURFACE.
- ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • 2-402.11: OBSERVED CHEF WITH BEARD AND WITHOUT A BEARD RESTRAINT. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE BEARD RESTRAINTS FOR ALL FOOD HANDLERS WITH BEARDS.Personal Cleanliness • 2-402.11: OBSERVED CHEF WITH BEARD AND WITHOUT A BEARD RESTRAINT. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE BEARD RESTRAINTS FOR ALL FOOD HANDLERS WITH BEARDS.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-204.12: BROKEN / MISSING BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE AT MOP SINK.REPAIR ISSUE.
- ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • 6-501.19: NO SELF-CLOSING DOOR PROVIDED AT STAFF WASHROOM DOOR. PROVIDE A SELF-CLOSING DEVICE.Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • 6-501.19: NO SELF-CLOSING DOOR PROVIDED AT STAFF WASHROOM DOOR. PROVIDE A SELF-CLOSING DEVICE.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-201.11: UNSEALED WHITE PANEL BETWEEN THE SIDE OF PIZZA OVEN AND HANDWASHING SINK AT FRONT PREP AREA.REPAIR ISSUE
When was Amatos Pizza last inspected?
Amatos Pizza has 20 inspections on record going back to February 3, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 11, 2023 | closed by the city | |
| June 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 5, 2022 | Fail | |
| May 19, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 13, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 1, 2018 | Pass | |
| September 14, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 20, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 10, 2017 | Fail | |
| December 22, 2016 | Fail | |
| July 26, 2016 | Pass |
Amatos Pizza vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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.
Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 8, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.