Beef And Brandy Restaurant

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 28, 2018
• address127 S State St, Chicago 60603

Is Beef And Brandy Restaurant clean?

Beef And Brandy Restaurant is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on September 28, 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 Beef And Brandy Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 28, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • 2-102.14(N) OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON SITE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AN EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY THAT INCLUDES A SIGNED ACKNOWLEGDEMENT FROM EACH EMPLOYEE AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • 2-501.11 OBSERVED NO WRITTEN PROCEDURE FOR RESPONDING TO VOMITING AND DIARRHEAL EVENTS THAT CAN POTENTIALLY OCCUR INSIDE OF THE FOOD ESTABLISHMENT. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧊food not cooled down right
  Proper Date Marking And Disposition • 3-501.17(D) OBSERVED SOME READY TO EAT TIME/TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR SAFETY FOODS (COOKED POTATOES) OUT OF THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING AND HELD FOR OVER 24 HOURS WITHOUT LABEL CONTAINING PRODUCT NAME AND DATE LOCATED INSIDE OF THE WALK IN COOLER. INSTRUCTED TO LABEL ALL READY TO EAT TCS FOODS THAT ARE OUT OF THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING AND HELD FOR OVER 24 HOURS AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 📄consumer advisory missing
  Consumer Advisory Provided For Raw/Undercooked Food • 3-603.11(A) OBSERVED NO CONSUMER ADVISORY REMINDER ON THE MENU FOR ALL UNDERCOOKED OR RAW ITEMS THAT ARE SERVED. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A REMINDER ON THE MENU AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 4-601.11(C) OBSERVED INTERIOR OF EQUIPMENT (FRYERS) WITH ACCUMULATED GREASE DEBRIS, GASKETS OF THE 3 DOOR PREP COOLER WITH ACCUMULATED FOOD DEBRIS AND THE FAN WITH ACCUMULATED DUST AND DIRT DEBRIS IN THE REFRIGERATOR, ALL OF SAID EQUIPMENT IS LOCATED IN THE 1ST FLOOR FOOD PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN ALL SAID AREAS AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-204.12 OBSERVED UNABLE TO LOCATE BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE ON THE ICE MACHINE LOCATED IN THE FOOD PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO MAKE BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE VISIBLE AND MAINTAIN.

When was Beef And Brandy Restaurant last inspected?

Beef And Brandy Restaurant has 20 inspections on record going back to March 19, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Beef And Brandy Restaurant 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 September 28, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.