Express Food Market

• official resultPass w/ Conditions
• resultPass w/ Conditions
• inspection typeComplaint
• failed findings4
• critical findings1

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Failed findings

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Official wording: Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
  Inspector note: NO VOMIT OR DIARRHEA CLEAN UP POLICY OR KIT ON SITE AT TIME OF INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-005
  code 5Priority
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Official wording: Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
  Inspector note: FOUND NO BACK FLOW PREVENTION DEVICE ON THE UTILITY SINK. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN
  code 51
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Official wording: Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
  Inspector note: OBSERVED CEILING TILES THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY STAINED. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN • OBSERVED MAINTENANCE TOOLS SUCH AS BROOM, MOPS, DUSTPANS STORED ON THE FLOOR. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY STORE 6 INCHES OR MORE FROM THE FLOOR AND MAINTAIN • OBSERVED LITTER ON THE FLOOR BEHIND THE SHELVES, IN THE FRONT WINDOWS, IN THE BACK STORAGE AREA AND THE FRONT SERVICE AREA. FOUND UNNECESSARY ITEMS SUCH AS UNUSED SHELVES, SIGNAGE, DENTED CANS, OVER STOCK, ETC IN THE BACK STORAGE AREA, THE FRONT WINDOWS, AND THE SERVICE AREA. INSTRUCTED TO ORGANIZE, CLEAN AND MAINTAIN
  code 55
• ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used
  Inspector note: OBSERVED TOILET ROOM VENTILATION FAN WITH ACCUMULATION OF DUST. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN
  code 56

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass on August 29, 2016: 4 findings appeared for the first time.

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This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Chicago Data Portal.