Employee/Vistior Cafeteria

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 15, 2026 →
• address2875 W 19Th St, Chicago 60623

Is Employee/Vistior Cafeteria clean?

Employee/Vistior Cafeteria is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 15, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Employee/Vistior Cafeteria?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🪳pests in the house
  Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present
• ⚠️Previous Core Violation Corrected

When was Employee/Vistior Cafeteria last inspected?

Employee/Vistior Cafeteria has 19 inspections on record going back to July 22, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 4 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Employee/Vistior Cafeteria vs North Lawndale

North Lawndale runs 80% clean across 252 tracked restaurants — 199 clean, 29 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 252 spots Cooked tracks in North Lawndale, 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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 October 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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