Ken Tone's Drive-In

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 1, 2017
• address551 W 18Th St, Chicago 60616

Is Ken Tone's Drive-In clean?

Ken Tone's Drive-In is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 1, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Ken Tone's Drive-In?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 1, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • OBSERVED PLASTIC SINGLE SERVICE CUPS BEING USED AS SCOOPS AND BEING STORED INSIDE SEASONING CONTAINERS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE PROPER SCOOPS WITH HANDLE AND HANDLES MUST NOT TOUCH FOOD.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • OBSERVED PLASTIC SINGLE SERVICE CUPS BEING USED AS SCOOPS AND BEING STORED INSIDE SEASONING CONTAINERS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE PROPER SCOOPS WITH HANDLE AND HANDLES MUST NOT TOUCH FOOD.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED CARDBOARD USED AS LINERS IN SHELVING UNITS.INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE TO PREVENT INSECT BREEDING.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED CARDBOARD USED AS LINERS IN SHELVING UNITS.INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE TO PREVENT INSECT BREEDING.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • OBSERVED GREASE BUILD UP WITH FOOD DEBRIS UNDER STOVE, INSIDE FRYERS, BETWEEN EXTERIOR OF COOKING EUQIPMENT IN FOOD PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS AND GREASE BUILD UP ON FLOOR UNDER STOVE, FRYERS, BEHIND COOKING EQUIPMENT IN COOK LINE. ALSO FOUND FOOD DEBRIS ON FLOOR INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER AND FREEZER. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. FOUND CARDBOARD USED AS FLOOR MATS INSIDE WALK-IN FREEZER AND COOLER. MUST REMOVE AND MAINTAIN FLOOR TO SMOOTH, NON-ABSORBABLE AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS AND GREASE BUILD UP ON FLOOR UNDER STOVE, FRYERS, BEHIND COOKING EQUIPMENT IN COOK LINE. ALSO FOUND FOOD DEBRIS ON FLOOR INSIDE WALK-IN COOLER AND FREEZER. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. FOUND CARDBOARD USED AS FLOOR MATS INSIDE WALK-IN FREEZER AND COOLER. MUST REMOVE AND MAINTAIN FLOOR TO SMOOTH, NON-ABSORBABLE AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED HOLE ON SHELF LOCATED NEXT TO 3-COMPARTMENT SINK AT FRONT. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED HOLE ON SHELF LOCATED NEXT TO 3-COMPARTMENT SINK AT FRONT. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL.

When was Ken Tone's Drive-In last inspected?

Ken Tone's Drive-In has 9 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2010.

Ken Tone's Drive-In 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 August 1, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.