Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 21, 2020
• address131 N Clinton St, Chicago 60661

Is Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market clean?

Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 21, 2020. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 21, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED GRAB AND GO BEET SALADS, TOMATO SALAD, AND ETHIOPIAN SALAD WITH DRESSING WITHOUT LABELS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE LABELS WITH INGREDIENTS, ALL PREPACKAGED FOODS IN DISPLAY COOLER.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED RICE SOAKING IN LARGE BUCKET OF WATER ON FLOOR IN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO ELEVATE 6 INCHES OFF FLOOR IN ORDER TO PREVENT POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED RICE SOAKING IN LARGE BUCKET OF WATER ON FLOOR IN PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO ELEVATE 6 INCHES OFF FLOOR IN ORDER TO PREVENT POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION.
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED ALL FOOD HANDLERS WITHOUT EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINTS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.
  Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED ALL FOOD HANDLERS WITHOUT EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINTS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • OBSERVED NO CLEAN UP PROCEDURE POSTED OR NECESSARY ITEMS AVAILABLE ON SITE FOR VOMIT AND DIAARHEA EVENTS THAT CAN OCCUR IN THE FOOD ESTABLISHMENT. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. DOCUMENTS PROVIDED. CITATION ISSUED.

When was Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market last inspected?

Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market has 3 inspections on record going back to January 15, 2019.

Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Llc - French Market 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 0% 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 21, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.