Cafeteria Yesenia

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 17, 2026
• address4244 S Ashland Ave, Chicago 60609

Is Cafeteria Yesenia clean?

Cafeteria Yesenia is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafeteria Yesenia?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • Rear kitchen with no door or barrier where customers can get easy access to prep kitchen, instructed to install a door or a barrier.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • Rear kitchen with no door or barrier where customers can get easy access to prep kitchen, instructed to install a door or a barrier.
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • Ice scream scoop stored in standing water at room temperature, Instructed to keep according to health code, ie.
  In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored • Ice scream scoop stored in standing water at room temperature, Instructed to keep according to health code, ie.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • Observed using non food grade bags to store food in prep cooler, instructed to use only food grade bags.

When was Cafeteria Yesenia last inspected?

Cafeteria Yesenia has 21 inspections on record going back to August 20, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafeteria Yesenia 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 39% of them.

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• ✓ Dino's
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• ✓ Domino's Pizza
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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 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.