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Muscle Bar (La Fitness)
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 22, 2020
- address1804 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago 60640
Is Muscle Bar (La Fitness) clean?
Muscle Bar (La Fitness) is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on September 22, 2020. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Muscle Bar (La Fitness)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 22, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • STILL NOTED NO CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON DUTY WHILE TCS FOODS (PREPARES SMOOTHIES ETC.) WERE BEING PREPARED AND SERVED. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT THAT A CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER MUST BE PRESENT AT ALL TIMES TCS FOODS ARE PREPARED AND SERVED AND ALSO THE PERSON IN CHARGE MUST HAVE A CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFICATE BY NEXT INSPECTION (UPON BEING INSPECTED) PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED.
When was Muscle Bar (La Fitness) last inspected?
Muscle Bar (La Fitness) has 9 inspections on record going back to July 28, 2016.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 13, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| September 22, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 18, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 31, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 29, 2017 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2017 | Fail | |
| October 6, 2017 | Fail | |
| August 3, 2016 | Pass | |
| July 28, 2016 | Fail |
Muscle Bar (La Fitness) vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 September 22, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.