Crafty Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 8, 2020
• address1 S Wacker Dr, Chicago 60606

Is Crafty Cafe clean?

Crafty Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 8, 2020. 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 Crafty Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 8, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • OBSERVED NO HAND WASHING SIGNAGE AT THE TWO FRONT HAND SINKS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED A CONTAINER OF POWDER ON THE COUNTER WITH NO LABEL. MUST LABEL FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS WHEN FOOD IS NOT IN ORIGINAL PACKAGE.
• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • FACILITY USES HI TEMPERATURE SANITIZING DISH MACHINE AND DOESN'T HAVE PROPER TEMPERATURE MEASURING IRREVERSIBLE REGISTERING TEMPERATURE INDICATOR THAT SHALL BE PROVIDED AND READILY ACCESSIBLE FOR MEASURING THE UTENSIL SURFACE TEMPERATURE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005 NO CITATION ISSUED.
  Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • FACILITY USES HI TEMPERATURE SANITIZING DISH MACHINE AND DOESN'T HAVE PROPER TEMPERATURE MEASURING IRREVERSIBLE REGISTERING TEMPERATURE INDICATOR THAT SHALL BE PROVIDED AND READILY ACCESSIBLE FOR MEASURING THE UTENSIL SURFACE TEMPERATURE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005 NO CITATION ISSUED.

When was Crafty Cafe last inspected?

Crafty Cafe has 1 inspection on record going back to October 8, 2020.

Crafty Cafe vs Loop

Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 50% 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 October 8, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.