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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 28, 2022
- address200 E Randolph St Bldg, Chicago 60601
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 28, 2022. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 28, 2022. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Au Bon Pain last inspected?
Au Bon Pain has 16 inspections on record going back to August 20, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 7, 2022 | closed by the city | |
| April 28, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 8, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 24, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 16, 2019 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2018 | Pass | |
| July 19, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2016 | Pass | |
| March 16, 2016 | Pass | |
| March 19, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2014 | Pass |
Au Bon Pain vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 April 28, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.