Cactus Food & Liquors

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 11, 2020
• address3358 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60618
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Cactus Food & Liquors clean?

Cactus Food & Liquors is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 11, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Cactus Food & Liquors?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • NO VOMIT AND DIARRHEA CLEAN UP KIT AND PROCEDURE ON SITE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE PROCEDURE ALONG WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPLIES AS OUTLINED IN POLICY. PRIORITY FOUNDATION. 7-38-005. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED MINOR WATER DAMAGE ON CEILING TILES THROUGHOUT MAIN SHOPPING AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR.

When was Cactus Food & Liquors last inspected?

Cactus Food & Liquors has 1 inspection on record going back to February 11, 2020.

Cactus Food & Liquors vs Irving Park

Irving Park runs 64% clean across 804 tracked restaurants — 516 clean, 141 mid, 146 cooked.

Against the 804 spots Cooked tracks in Irving Park, this one comes out cleaner than 57% 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 11, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.