Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 13, 2019
• address2825 W Cermak Rd, Chicago 60623

Is Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant clean?

Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 13, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 13, 2019, 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 • OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY DURING INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO COMPLY. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-010 NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • OBSERVED NO PROCEDURE FOR RESPONDING TO VOMITING AND DIARRHEA EVENTS DURING INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO COMPLY, ALONG WITH THE NECESSARY CLEAN-UP KIT ITEMS. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005 NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧊food not cooled down right
  Proper Date Marking And Disposition • OBSERVED TCS FOODS (HAM, CHOPPED BOK CHOY, ETC.) WITHOUT PROPER DATE MARKING AND DISPOSITION. INSTRUCTED THAT ALL TCS FOODS PREPARED ON PREMISES AND HELD FOR OVER 24 HOURS MUST HAVE PROPER DATE MARKING AND DISPOSITION. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005 NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED CARDBOARD BEING USED ON THE FLOORS IN THE BACK KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED METAL COFFEE CANS BEING USED FOR FOOD STORAGE AND PREPARATION. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE WITH FOOD GRADE CONTAINERS AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED THE SIDES OF THE OVEN, DEEP FRYER, AND LARGE COOKING POTS WITH EXCESSIVE GREASE, DIRT AND DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER'S CERTIFICATE DURING INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO COMPLY.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER'S CERTIFICATE DURING INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO COMPLY.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • OBSERVED NO PROOF OF ALLERGEN TRAINING FROM THE CERTIFIED MANAGER. INSTRUCTED THAT ALL MANAGERS WITH A CITY OF CHICAGO SANITATION CERTIFICATE MUST COMPLY WITH ALLERGEN TRAINING.

When was Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant last inspected?

Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant has 16 inspections on record going back to August 7, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Chan's Garden Chinese Restaurant vs North Lawndale

North Lawndale runs 60% clean across 620 tracked restaurants — 370 clean, 83 mid, 163 cooked.

Against the 620 spots Cooked tracks in North Lawndale, this one comes out cleaner than 27% 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 May 13, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.