Central Kitchen And Tap

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeCanvass
• failed findings5
• critical findings1

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Failed findings

• 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical
  Official wording: Sanitizing Rinse For Equipment And Utensils: Clean, Proper Temperature, Concentration, Exposure Time
  Inspector note: LOW TEMPERATURE DISHMACHINE NOT SANITIZING, 0 PPM CHLORINE, WHILE IN USE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPAIR/MAINTAIN DISHMACHINE, SAID DISHMACHINE MUST SANITIZE AT 100 PPM CHLORINE. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-030. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO TEMPORARILY WASH, RINSE AND SANITIZE ALL MULTI-USE UNTENSILS IN 3-COMPARTMENT SINK.
  code 8Priority
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Official wording: Food Protected During Storage, Preparation, Display, Service And Transportation
  Inspector note: OBSERVED ACCUMULATED PINK/BLACK SLIME BUILD UP INSIDE ICE MACHINE DRIPPING INTO ICE (READY TO EAT FOOD). INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND SANITIZE INTERIOR OF ICE MACHINE. ALL ICE INSIDE ICE MACHINE VOLUNTARILLY DISCARDED AT THIS TIME. SERIOUS VIOLATION 7-38-005(A). INTERIOR OF ICE MACHINE MUST BE CLEANED AND SANITIZED BY DATE OF REINSPECTION (05/28/14).
  code 16
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Official wording: Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents
  Inspector note: OBSERVED FOOD BUILD UP INSIDE PREP COOLERS DOOR RUBBER GASKETS AND ON SHELVES IN PREP AREA UNDERNEATH SCALE. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN EQUIPMENT.
  code 33
• 🪳pests in the house
  Official wording: Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained
  Inspector note: VENTILATION HOOD MISSING 3 FILTERS, MOP SINK DRAINING SLOWLY. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE CLEAN FLITERS FOR HOOD AND REPAIR/MAINTAIN MOP SINK.
  code 38
• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous
  Inspector note: NO METAL STEM THEROMETER FOR FOOD HANDLERS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE AND CALIBRATE METAL STEM THEROMETER FOR FOOD HANDLERS.
  code 40

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass on July 31, 2013: 4 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 3 previous findings did not recur.

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This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

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