Budget Food & Liquor

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 1, 2020 →
• address2504 E 79Th St, Chicago 60649
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Budget Food & Liquor clean?

Budget Food & Liquor is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 1, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Budget Food & Liquor?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was Budget Food & Liquor last inspected?

Budget Food & Liquor has 4 inspections on record going back to November 16, 2017.

Budget Food & Liquor vs South Shore

South Shore runs 71% clean across 140 tracked restaurants — 96 clean, 21 mid, 18 cooked.

Against the 140 spots Cooked tracks in South Shore, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 1, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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