Mr Royal Food & Tobacco

• resultFail
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 20, 2010
• address1439 W 79Th St, Chicago 60620

Is Mr Royal Food & Tobacco clean?

Mr Royal Food & Tobacco is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 20, 2010. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Mr Royal Food & Tobacco?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2010, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Facilities To Maintain Proper Temperature • COOLER IN POOR REPAIR, INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF 53F. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-005A CRITICAL. INSTD TO MAINTAIN 40F OR BELOW.
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • OBSERVED THE FOLLOWING POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS (SALAMI, EGGS, CHEESE) AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 50F-55F IN COOLER. ALL DISPOSED OF AND DENATURED AT THIS TIME. APPROX 30LBS. $100 VALUE. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-005A CRITICAL.
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Sewage And Waste Water Disposal, No Back Siphonage, Cross Connection And/Or Back Flow • RAW SEWAGE, BLACK SUBSTANCE WITH FOUL SMELL OBSERVED BACKING UP INTO 3-COMPARTMENT SINK. ALSO NOTED RAW SEWAGE FROM TOILET ONTO FLOOR AND ALSO AROUND HOT WATER TANK. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-030 CRITICAL.
• ❓food from a questionable sourcecritical
  Adequate Number, Convenient, Accessible, Designed, And Maintained • NO COLD RUNNING WATER UNDER CITY PRESSURE AT EXPOSED HANDSINK. LOW WATER PRESSURE AT TOILET ROOM HANDSINK. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-030 CRITICAL. PROVIDE SAME AND REPAIR SAME.
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  No Evidence Of Rodent Or Insect Outer Openings Protected/Rodent Proofed, A Written Log Shall Be Maintained Available To The Inspectors • FRONT AND REAR DOORS NOT RODENT PROOF, GAPS AT BOTTOM OF DOORS. INSTD TO RODENT PROOF SAME SO AS TO BE TIGHT-FITTING AND NO DAYLIGHT TO BE SEEN. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-020 SERIOUS.
• 🌡️hot/cold holding temps off
  * Certified Food Manager On Site When Potentially Hazardous Foods Are Prepared And Served • NO CERTIFIED MGR ON DUTY WHILE HANDLING POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS (NACHOS W/CHEESE, CHICKEN). CITATION ISSUED 7-38-012 SERIOUS.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • ALL FOOD AND NON-FOOD EQUIPMENT THRU-OUT NOT CLEAN INCLUDING INTERIOR BOTTOM OF FRYERS, PREP TABLES AND COOLERS THRU-OUT. CLEAN SAME.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FLOORS THRU-OUT PREMISES NOT CLEAN. CLEAN SAME AND MAINTAIN.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FLOORS THRU-OUT PREMISES NOT CLEAN. CLEAN SAME AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • THERMOMETERS NEEDED INSIDE ALL COOLERS.
  Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • THERMOMETERS NEEDED INSIDE ALL COOLERS.

When was Mr Royal Food & Tobacco last inspected?

Mr Royal Food & Tobacco has 3 inspections on record going back to July 9, 2010.

Mr Royal Food & Tobacco vs Auburn Gresham

Auburn Gresham runs 68% clean across 527 tracked restaurants — 351 clean, 82 mid, 86 cooked.

Against the 527 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn Gresham, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 20, 2010. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.