Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 9, 2012
• address2801 N Central Park Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant clean?

Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 9, 2012. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 9, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • PREP FOODS INSIDE STORAGE COOLER NOT LABELED, MUST DATE/LABEL AND MAINTAIN.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • PREP FOODS INSIDE STORAGE COOLER NOT LABELED, MUST DATE/LABEL AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE BROKEN GASKETS ON PIZZA PREP COOLER DOORS.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE BROKEN GASKETS ON PIZZA PREP COOLER DOORS.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • THE FOLLOWING NOT CLEAN, MUST CLEAN/SANITIZE; COOLERS, FREEZERS, COOKING EQUIPMENT, BOTTOM PANELS OF PREP TABLES AND STEAM TABLE, MICROWAVE OVENS AND STORAGE SHELVES.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOORS, UNDER, BEHIND EQUIPMENT AT CORNERS AND ALONG WALLS THRU-OUT KITCHEN, DINING AREA AND BASEMENT.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOORS, UNDER, BEHIND EQUIPMENT AT CORNERS AND ALONG WALLS THRU-OUT KITCHEN, DINING AREA AND BASEMENT.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN WALLS BEHIND COOKING EQUIPMENT AND 3PART SINK IN KITCHEN AND HOOD AND FILTERS ABOVE COOKING EQUIPMENT.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN WALLS BEHIND COOKING EQUIPMENT AND 3PART SINK IN KITCHEN AND HOOD AND FILTERS ABOVE COOKING EQUIPMENT.
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Premises Maintained Free Of Litter, Unnecessary Articles, Cleaning Equipment Properly Stored • INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE UNNECESSARY ARTICLES THRU-OUT BASEMENT, CLEAN AND ORGANIZE. ARTICLES MUST BE STORED OFF FLOORS, AWAY FROM WALLS.
• ⚠️Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY STORED CLEANING TOWELS.
  Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY STORED CLEANING TOWELS.

When was Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant last inspected?

Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant has 4 inspections on record going back to January 24, 2011.

Little Clown Pizza & Restaurant vs Avondale

Avondale runs 64% clean across 679 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 111 mid, 133 cooked.

Against the 679 spots Cooked tracks in Avondale, this one comes out cleaner than 39% 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 May 9, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.