Meat Market & Grocery

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedFebruary 1, 2019
• address3537 W Cermak Rd, Chicago 60623
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Meat Market & Grocery clean?

Meat Market & Grocery is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 1, 2019. 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 Meat Market & Grocery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 1, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY IN PLACE. INSTD TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-010
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • NO PROCEDURE FOR RESPONDING TO VOMITING AND DIARRHEAL EVENTS. INSTD TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005.

When was Meat Market & Grocery last inspected?

Meat Market & Grocery has 4 inspections on record going back to December 4, 2018.

Meat Market & Grocery vs North Lawndale

North Lawndale runs 60% clean across 620 tracked restaurants — 370 clean, 83 mid, 163 cooked.

Against the 620 spots Cooked tracks in North Lawndale, this one comes out cleaner than 27% of them.

Other spots in North Lawndale

• ✓! Rothschild Liquors
  mid · May 1, 2019
• ✓! Kesha's Place
  mid · February 7, 2019
• ✓! Cermak Mart
  mid · March 18, 2019
• ✓! Bar-B-Que Kingdom
  mid · April 21, 2020
• ✓! Lunch Box
  mid · April 2, 2024
• ✓ El Patron Ii
  clean · February 2, 2023

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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 February 1, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.