Back Of The Yards Coffee

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations3
• last inspectedMarch 27, 2020
• address2059 W 47Th St, Chicago 60609

Is Back Of The Yards Coffee clean?

Back Of The Yards Coffee is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 27, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Back Of The Yards Coffee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 27, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • PREMISES HAD NO SUPPLIES TO RESPOND TO VOMIT OR DIARRHEA EVENTS. MUST PROVIDE CLEAN-UP KIT. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005.
• 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical
  Hands Clean & Properly Washed • OBSERVED EMPLOYEE WASHING HANDS IN 3-COMPARTMENT SINK OF THE KITCHEN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO WASH HANDS AT HAND WASH SINK WITH SOAP AND PAPER TOWEL. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-010.
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • OBSERVED HAND WASH SINK IN PREP AREA WITH BUCKET IN IT. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE ALL HAND WASH SINKS ACCESSIBLE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY VIOLATION 7-38-030(C).
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored • MUST PROPERLY STORE UNUSED WIPING CLOTHS IN CHEMICAL SANITIZING SOLUTION WHEN NOT IN USE.
• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • NOTED NO SANITIZING TEST KIT FOR 3-COMPARTMENT SINK ON SITE. MUST PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005.
  Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • NOTED NO SANITIZING TEST KIT FOR 3-COMPARTMENT SINK ON SITE. MUST PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • REMOVE UNNECESSARY ITEMS AND CLUTTER IN BASEMENT AREA. ORGANIZE AND MAINTAIN. • CLEAN FLOOR IN PREP AREA AND BASEMENT OF COFFEE BEAN SPILLS.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER TRAINING.

When was Back Of The Yards Coffee last inspected?

Back Of The Yards Coffee has 3 inspections on record going back to May 5, 2017.

Back Of The Yards Coffee vs New City

New City runs 64% clean across 490 tracked restaurants — 311 clean, 76 mid, 98 cooked.

Against the 490 spots Cooked tracks in New City, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 March 27, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.