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Joy Yee Plus
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 22, 2026
- address2159 S China Pl, Chicago 60616
Is Joy Yee Plus clean?
Joy Yee Plus is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Joy Yee Plus?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • SOME CLEANING NEEDED TO THE COOKING EQUIPMENT IN THE KITCHEN; INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN EQUIPMENT WHERE NEEDED. CLEAN INTERIOR PANEL OF THE ICE MACHINE IN FRONT PREP AREA.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED A LEAK AT THE FAUCET NECK OF THE THREE COMP SINK IN THE KITCHEN; INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR LEAK AT FAUCET NECK.
- ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • FOUND EXPIRED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATES; INSTRUCTED TO HAVE FOOD HANDLERS OBTAIN VALID CERTIFICATES.All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • FOUND EXPIRED FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFICATES; INSTRUCTED TO HAVE FOOD HANDLERS OBTAIN VALID CERTIFICATES.
When was Joy Yee Plus last inspected?
Joy Yee Plus has 21 inspections on record going back to March 11, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 7, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 1, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 19, 2023 | Fail | |
| June 22, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 19, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 4, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 5, 2016 | Pass |
Joy Yee Plus vs Armour Square
Armour Square runs 75% clean across 644 tracked restaurants — 481 clean, 114 mid, 46 cooked.
Against the 644 spots Cooked tracks in Armour Square, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 April 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.