Noodles & Company

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 18, 2016
• address3336 N Western Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Noodles & Company clean?

Noodles & Company is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on November 18, 2016. 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 Noodles & Company?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 18, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • MUST PROPERLY STORE THE LADDLES IN FOOD CONTAINERS AT THE NOODLE STATION WITH THE HANDLE UP OR AWAY FROM THE FOOD PRODUCT SO AS TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • MUST PROPERLY STORE THE LADDLES IN FOOD CONTAINERS AT THE NOODLE STATION WITH THE HANDLE UP OR AWAY FROM THE FOOD PRODUCT SO AS TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • MUST CLEAN AND SANITIZE LOWER PORTION OF INNER PANEL OF THE ICE MACHINE IN THE REAR AREA TO REMOVE SLIGTH BUILD-UP.

When was Noodles & Company last inspected?

Noodles & Company has 4 inspections on record going back to January 6, 2015.

Noodles & Company vs North Center

North Center runs 68% clean across 976 tracked restaurants — 657 clean, 151 mid, 163 cooked.

Against the 976 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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  clean · January 6, 2015
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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 November 18, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.