Jewel Food Store #3376

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeCanvass
• failed findings4
• critical findings0

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Failed findings

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Official wording: Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
  Inspector note: OBSERVED ICE MACHINE BIN A LITTLE DIRTY LOCATED IN BAR AREA. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN, SANITIZE AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
  code 16
• 🌡️hot/cold holding temps off
  Official wording: Proper Hot Holding Temperatures
  Inspector note: OBSERVED APPROXIMATELY 2.5LBS OF COOKED GRILLED CHICKEN LOCATED IN HOT HOLD UNIT IN CHICKEN/SALAD PREP AREA AT IMPROPER HOT HOLDING DURING TIME OF INSPECTION. NOTED TEMPERATURE OF MIXED CHICKEN PARTS RANGING FROM 109.5F-118.0F. INSTRUCTED TO HOLD ALL HOT HELD FOOD ITEMS AT 135.0F OR HIGHER AT ALL TIMES. MANAGER DISCARDED VOLUNTARILY DURING THIS TIME. PRIORITY VIOLATION. 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
  code 21
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Official wording: Thermometers Provided & Accurate
  Inspector note: UNABLE TO LOCATE THERMOMETERS IN ALL COLD HOLD UNITS ON PREMISE TO SHOW INTERNAL TEMPERATURES OF EQUIPMENT. MUST PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.
  code 36
• 🪳pests in the house
  Official wording: Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present
  Inspector note: OBSERVED APPROXIMATELY 100 SMALL BLACK LIVE FLIES FLYING THROUGHOUT CHICKEN/SALAD/DELI,SUSHI AND BAKERY PREP AREAS, ON PREMISE DURING TIME OF INSPECTION. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS... IN ALL SAID AREAS OF FACILITY ON THE WALLS, CEILINGS DIRECTLY ABOVE PREP TABLES, ON IN USE SURFACES OF PREP TABLES (MUST CLEAN AND SANITIZE), ON EXTERIOR SURFACES OF REFRIGERATION UNITS, ON ALL EXPOSED HANDSINKS, ON FRUIT DISPLAY CASING WHERE CANTALOUPE AND WATERMELON ARE STORED, AND IN BAR AREA NEAR BOTH HANDSINK, BEER TAP HANDLES AND ON DRIED GLASSWARE. INSTRUCTED TO CONTACT PEST CONTROL FOR SERVICE AND LOCATE THE SOURCE. MUST MINIMIZE SMALL BLACK LIVE ACTIVITY IN FACILITY PREP AREAS. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-020 (A). CITATION ISSUED.
  code 38

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass on February 4, 2020: 4 findings appeared for the first time. 2 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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