Mid Way Liquors

• official resultPass w/ Conditions
• resultPass w/ Conditions
• inspection typeCanvass
• failed findings5
• critical findings2

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Failed findings

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Official wording: Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
  Inspector note: OBSERVED NO HAND WASHING SINK IN PREP/DISH WASHING AREA WHERE ICE IS BEING BAGGED FROM ICE MACHINE FOR SALE.MUST INSTALL A HAND SINK WITH HIT AND COLD RUNNING WATER AND MAINTAIN.(PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-030(C)
  code 10Priority
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Official wording: Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
  Inspector note: OBSERVED NO CLEAN-UP POLICY PROCEDURE AND ITEMS FOR VOMITING AND DIARRHEA.MUST PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.(PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005)
  code 5Priority
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils: Properly Stored
  Inspector note: MUST STORE ICE SCOOP FROM ON TOP OF ICE MACHINE AND STORE IN A CLEAN CONTAINER WHEN NOT IN USE.
  code 43
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Official wording: Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Inspector note: MUST CLEAN DEBRIS BUILD UP FROM INTERIOR PANEL OF ICE MACHINE,BEER WALK IN COOLER FAN GUARD COVERS,JUICE & POP REACH IN COOLERS.MUST DEFROST ICE CREAM FREEZER.
  code 49
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Official wording: Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
  Inspector note: MUST REPAIR OR REPLACE STAINED CEILING TILES AND DAMAGED FLOOR TILES THROUGHOUT,DAMAGED WALL BASES NEAR ICE MACHINE,DAMAGED CEILING ABOVE ICE MACHINE. • MUST SCRAPE AND PAINT PEELING PAINT ON WALLS NEAR WALK IN COOLER AND ON CEILING IN REAR LIQUOR STORAGE AREA. • MUST ELEVATE,REMOVE AND ORGANIZE ARTICLES OFF OF FLOOR AND AWAY FROM WALLS THROUGHOUT. • MUST CLEAN DEBRIS FROM FLOOR UNDER PALLETS.
  code 55

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass on August 21, 2012: 5 findings appeared for the first time. 2 previous findings did not recur.

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This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

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