Chips Food & Liquor Mart

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 7, 2020 →
• address3700 -3704 W 55Th St, Chicago 60632
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Chips Food & Liquor Mart clean?

Chips Food & Liquor Mart is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 7, 2020. 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 Chips Food & Liquor Mart?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Thermometers Provided & Accurate

When was Chips Food & Liquor Mart last inspected?

Chips Food & Liquor Mart has 2 inspections on record going back to July 1, 2011.

Chips Food & Liquor Mart vs West Elsdon

West Elsdon runs 80% clean across 201 tracked restaurants — 157 clean, 36 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 201 spots Cooked tracks in West Elsdon, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 7, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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