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Employee/Vistior Cafeteria
- resultPass
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 3, 2025
- address2875 W 19Th St, Chicago 60623
Is Employee/Vistior Cafeteria clean?
Employee/Vistior Cafeteria is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 3, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Employee/Vistior Cafeteria?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecriticalAdequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • OBSERVED THE HAND SOAP DISPENSER OVER THE 3 COMP SINK. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO RELOCATE TO THE HAND SINK AREA.
- 🪳pests in the houseInsects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present • OBSERVED PEST CONTROL DEVICE OVER THE 3 COMP SINK. MUST REMOVE/RELOCATE.
- ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A DRAINBOARD FOR PROPERLY AIR DRYING DISHES.Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A DRAINBOARD FOR PROPERLY AIR DRYING DISHES.
- ⚠️Sewage & Waste Water Properly Disposed • INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INSTALL A GREASE TRAP AS REQUIRED FOR THE 3 COMP SINKS.Sewage & Waste Water Properly Disposed • INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INSTALL A GREASE TRAP AS REQUIRED FOR THE 3 COMP SINKS.
When was Employee/Vistior Cafeteria last inspected?
Employee/Vistior Cafeteria has 18 inspections on record going back to July 22, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 17, 2025 | — | |
| July 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 7, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 21, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 12, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 6, 2019 | Fail | |
| October 23, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 16, 2018 | Fail | |
| October 30, 2017 | Pass |
Employee/Vistior Cafeteria vs North Lawndale
North Lawndale runs 60% clean across 620 tracked restaurants — 370 clean, 83 mid, 163 cooked.
Against the 620 spots Cooked tracks in North Lawndale, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 November 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.