Joe's Imports

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 13, 2022
• address813 W Fulton Market, Chicago 60607

Is Joe's Imports clean?

Joe's Imports is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 13, 2022. 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 Joe's Imports?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 13, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • OBSERVED NO ORIGINAL CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE POSTED. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE A PERSON WITH AN ORIGINAL CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE POSTED ON SITE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • OBSERVED MUSSELS IN CONTAINER WITHOUT SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED. SHELLSTOCK tags or labels shall remain attached to the container in which the SHELLSTOCK are received until the container is empty. MUSSELS HAVE BEEN DISCARDED AND DENATURED. WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 10 LBS AT A COST OF $30.00. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.critical
  Required Records Available: Shellstock Tags, Parasite Destruction • OBSERVED MUSSELS IN CONTAINER WITHOUT SHELLSTOCK TAG ATTACHED. SHELLSTOCK tags or labels shall remain attached to the container in which the SHELLSTOCK are received until the container is empty. MUSSELS HAVE BEEN DISCARDED AND DENATURED. WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 10 LBS AT A COST OF $30.00. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
• 🧪toxic chemicals mishandled
  Compliance With Variance/Specialized Process/Haccp • OBSERVED NO APPROVED HACCP PLAN ON SITE FOR VACUUM SEALED CHICKEN. ALSO OBSERVED VACUUM SEALED PORK CHOP, MILD CHEESE, CAPICOLA, B.P. CRACKER, BED, TRIPLE BERRY, PISTACHIO, NUTS, SCALLOPS AND SAUSAGE SPICE. MUST SUBMIT A HACCP PLAN TO CDPH FOR APPROVAL. FOOD HAS BEEN TAGGED AND HELD FOR INSPECTION. FOOD WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 100 LBS AT A COST OF $300.00. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. CITATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️Variance Obtained For Specialized Processing Methods • OBSERVED NO APPROVED HACCP PLAN ON SITE FOR VACUUM SEALED CHICKEN. MUST SUBMIT VARIANCE TO CDPH FOR APPROVAL. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. SEE VIOLATION #29 FOR CITATION.
  Variance Obtained For Specialized Processing Methods • OBSERVED NO APPROVED HACCP PLAN ON SITE FOR VACUUM SEALED CHICKEN. MUST SUBMIT VARIANCE TO CDPH FOR APPROVAL. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-005. SEE VIOLATION #29 FOR CITATION.

When was Joe's Imports last inspected?

Joe's Imports has 4 inspections on record going back to January 29, 2019.

Joe's Imports vs Near West Side

Near West Side runs 72% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,463 clean, 406 mid, 151 cooked.

Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 13, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.