Hope Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedDecember 20, 2019
• address2431 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago 60608

Is Hope Cafe clean?

Hope Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 20, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Hope Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 20, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON PREMISES AT THIS TIME, INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-010, NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • OBSERVED NO PROCEDURES FOR CLEANING UP VOMIT AND DIARRHEA, INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY ITEMS AND A DISINFECTANT RATED FOR NOROVIRUS. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005, NO CITATION ISSUCED.
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED THE WOMENS TOILET ROOM TRASH RECPTACLE WITHOUT A COVER, INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE.
  Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • OBSERVED THE WOMENS TOILET ROOM TRASH RECPTACLE WITHOUT A COVER, INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLER TRAINING ON PREMISES AT THIS TIME, INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLER TRAINING ON PREMISES AT THIS TIME, INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE.

When was Hope Cafe last inspected?

Hope Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to November 10, 2014.

Hope Cafe vs East Garfield Park

East Garfield Park runs 66% clean across 510 tracked restaurants — 336 clean, 87 mid, 85 cooked.

Against the 510 spots Cooked tracks in East Garfield Park, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 December 20, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.