Au Bon Pain is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 19, 2018. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service β 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.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 19, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Au Bon Pain has 18 inspections on record going back to February 2, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 8, 2019 | closed by the city | |
| January 19, 2018 | Pass | |
| March 28, 2017 | Pass | |
| July 13, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| April 21, 2015 | Pass | |
| August 13, 2014 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2014 | Pass | |
| July 25, 2014 | Fail | |
| July 18, 2014 | Fail | |
| November 26, 2013 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2013 | Pass |
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants β 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.
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 β 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 βpriorityβ 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 β this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 19, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.