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City Coffee
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2019
- address5139 N Damen Ave, Chicago 60625
- cuisineCoffee Shop
Is City Coffee clean?
City Coffee is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 28, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at City Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒staff working while sickcriticalProcedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • OBSERVED NO VOMIT AND DIARRHEA PROCEDURE ON SITE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION. NO CITATION ISSUED. 7-38-005. -
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED NO SPLASH GUARD FOR HAND WASHING SINK TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION. SINK IS LOCATED NEXT TO 3 COMPARTMENT SINK DRYING BOARD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE SPLASH GUARD. -Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED NO SPLASH GUARD FOR HAND WASHING SINK TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION. SINK IS LOCATED NEXT TO 3 COMPARTMENT SINK DRYING BOARD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE SPLASH GUARD. -
- ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLING CERTIFICATE FOR FOOD HANDLERS ON SITE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATE FOR ALL FOOD HANDLERS.All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLING CERTIFICATE FOR FOOD HANDLERS ON SITE. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATE FOR ALL FOOD HANDLERS.
When was City Coffee last inspected?
City Coffee has 4 inspections on record going back to January 9, 2019.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2020 | closed by the city | |
| January 28, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 24, 2019 | Fail | |
| January 9, 2019 | — |
City Coffee vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 31% 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 January 28, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.