Checkers Drive In Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 2, 2020
• address8705 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago 60617

Is Checkers Drive In Restaurant clean?

Checkers Drive In Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 2, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Checkers Drive In Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED WASTE LINES NOT SHIELDED IN BASEMENT DRY FOOD STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENCASE ALL WASTE LINES TO PROTECT FROM POTENTIAL DRIPS.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED WASTE LINES NOT SHIELDED IN BASEMENT DRY FOOD STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENCASE ALL WASTE LINES TO PROTECT FROM POTENTIAL DRIPS.
• ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED WASTE LINES NOT SHIELDED IN BASEMENT SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLE STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENCASE ALL WASTE LINES TO PROTECT FROM POTENTIAL DRIPS.
  Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED WASTE LINES NOT SHIELDED IN BASEMENT SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLE STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO ENCASE ALL WASTE LINES TO PROTECT FROM POTENTIAL DRIPS.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED RESIDUE ON INTERIOR SURFACES OF ICE MACHINE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED SPILLS ON WALLS AND FLOORS IN PREP AND BASEMENT STORAGE AREAS. OBSERVED DUST BUILDUP ON CEILING VENTS, CEILING TILES, AND LIGHT SHIELDS IN PREP AND OFFICE AREAS. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. • OBSERVED UNUSED ARTICLES AND EQUIPMENT IN BASEMENT STORAGE AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REMOVE ALL UNNECESSARY ITEMS TO PREVENT PEST HARBORAGE.
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • OBSERVED DAMAGED LIGHT SHIELDS IN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
  Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • OBSERVED DAMAGED LIGHT SHIELDS IN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.

When was Checkers Drive In Restaurant last inspected?

Checkers Drive In Restaurant has 13 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Checkers Drive In Restaurant vs Avalon Park

Avalon Park runs 72% clean across 334 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 53 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 334 spots Cooked tracks in Avalon Park, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 September 2, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.