Express Grill

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeCanvass Re-Inspection
• failed findings2
• critical findings0

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Failed findings

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Official wording: Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
  Inspector note: 4-602.11(B-E)--OBSERVED PINK MINERAL BUILD UP INSIDE OF ICE MACHINE LOCATED AT DISH WASHING AREA. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  code 16
• ⚠️Previous Priority Foundation Violation Corrected
  Inspector note: PREVIOUS PRIORTIY FOUNDATION VIOLATION NOT CORRECTED FROM 9/8/2022, REPORT #2563326. #38-OBSERVED OVER 200 FRUIT FLIES ON WALLS IN REAR STORAGE AND DISHWASHING AREA. MUST ELIMINATE EVIDENCE OF PEST ACTIVITY ON PREMISES. PRIORITY VIOLATION. 7-42-090. CITATION ISSUED.
  code 59

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Fail on September 8, 2022: 1 finding appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 3 previous findings did not recur.

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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.

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