Frogs Market

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 21, 2011
• address2455 S Damen Ave, Chicago 60608
• cuisineWholesale

Is Frogs Market clean?

Frogs Market is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 21, 2011. 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 Frogs Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 21, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Facilities To Maintain Proper Temperature • All food establishments that display, prepare, or store potentially hazardous food shall have adequate refrigerated food storage facilities. MUST PROVIDE ADEQUATE REFRIGERATION TO MAINTAIN MEATS AT 40F OR BELOW.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • Ventilation: All plumbing fixtures, such as toilets, sinks, washbasins, etc., must be adequately trapped, vented, and re-vented and properly connected to the sewer in accordance with the plumbing chapter of the Municipal Code of Chicago and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Health. UTILITY SINK ON PREMISES IS NOT WORKING. MUST HAVE HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER. ONE FAUCET ON SINK; MUST PROVIDE TWO TO HAVE HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER. ALSO INSTALL PROPER METAL PIPING UNDER SINK; OBSERVED A PLASTIC TUBE WHERE PIPE SHOULD BE.
• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • A THERMOMETER IS NEEDED INSIDE OF REFRIGERATION UNIT TO CHECK TEMP DAILY.
  Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • A THERMOMETER IS NEEDED INSIDE OF REFRIGERATION UNIT TO CHECK TEMP DAILY.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Premises Maintained Free Of Litter, Unnecessary Articles, Cleaning Equipment Properly Stored • ENSURE STORAGE AREAS ARE MAINTAINED AND NOT CLUTTERED.

When was Frogs Market last inspected?

Frogs Market has 1 inspection on record going back to October 21, 2011.

Frogs Market vs Lower West Side

Lower West Side runs 68% clean across 1,153 tracked restaurants — 775 clean, 162 mid, 205 cooked.

Against the 1,153 spots Cooked tracks in Lower West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 October 21, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.