Build Coffee

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations3
• last inspectedAugust 27, 2024
• address6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago 60637

Is Build Coffee clean?

Build Coffee is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 27, 2024. 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 Build Coffee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 27, 2024, 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 • NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON PREMISES AS REQUIRED; MUST PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF EMPLOYEES RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT ANY ILLNESS TRANSMISSIBLE THROUGH FOOD. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-010.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • NO VOMIT AND DIARRHEA CLEAN UP KIT ON PREMISES AS REQUIRED; INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO PROVIDE A VOMIT AND DIARRHEA CLEAN UP KIT TO USE IN THE EVENT OF A VOMIT AND DIARRHEAL INCIDENT ON PREMISES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005.
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • NO HANDWASH SIGNAGE IN WASHROOM OR AT EXPOSED HANDSINK; INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE. CORRECTED ON SITE.
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • FOUND AN UNCOVERED RECEPTACLE IN UNISEX WASHROOM; INSTRUCTED THAT RECPTACLES MUST HAVE A COVER ON THEM.
  Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • FOUND AN UNCOVERED RECEPTACLE IN UNISEX WASHROOM; INSTRUCTED THAT RECPTACLES MUST HAVE A COVER ON THEM.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • INSTRUCTED THAT ALL FOOD HANDLERS MUST OBTAIN THE REQUIRED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • INSTRUCTED THAT ALL FOOD HANDLERS MUST OBTAIN THE REQUIRED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING.

When was Build Coffee last inspected?

Build Coffee has 3 inspections on record going back to May 22, 2017.

Build Coffee vs Woodlawn

Woodlawn runs 61% clean across 150 tracked restaurants — 91 clean, 28 mid, 30 cooked.

Against the 150 spots Cooked tracks in Woodlawn, 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 August 27, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.