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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 16, 2018
- address225 S Canal St, Chicago 60606
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on February 16, 2018. 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?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 16, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcriticalPotentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • OBSERVED IMPROPER TEMPERATURE OF POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS . APPROX 2-LBS OF MACARONI AND CHHESE PASTA AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURE OF 108.0F . BOTTLE MILK AT 50.1F. MUST MAINTAIN COLD FOODS 40.0F OR HIGHER HOT FOODS 140.0F OR BELOW. FOOD REMOVED AND DISCARDED BY MANAGER-CDI. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-005A
When was Au Bon Pain last inspected?
Au Bon Pain has 14 inspections on record going back to March 25, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2019 | closed by the city | |
| February 16, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 18, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 25, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 19, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2017 | Fail | |
| July 5, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 6, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 9, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 30, 2014 | Pass | |
| November 22, 2013 | Pass | |
| January 4, 2013 | Pass |
Au Bon Pain vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 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 February 16, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.