Orion Restaurant

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 20, 2025
• address5772 S Archer Ave, Chicago 60638

Is Orion Restaurant clean?

Orion Restaurant is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 20, 2025. 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 Orion Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties • PERSON IN CHARGE WITHOUT CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION CERTIFICATE. INSTD TO OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN ON SITE AT ALL TIMES
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • NO CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFIED MANAGER ON SITE WHILE HANDLING/PREPARING TCS FOODS (POTATOES, SAUSAGE, ETC) NOR CERTIFICATE POSTED. INSTD TO MAINTAIN ON SITE AT ALL TIMES. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-012 PRIORITY FOUNDATION
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • FOOD HANLDERS WITHOUT HAIR RESTRAINTS. INSTD TO WEAR HAIR RESTRAINTS AND MAINTAIN
  Personal Cleanliness • FOOD HANLDERS WITHOUT HAIR RESTRAINTS. INSTD TO WEAR HAIR RESTRAINTS AND MAINTAIN
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • MULTI USE UTENSILS IN STORAGE CONTAINER NOT INVERTED. INSTD TO INVERT (HANDLE UP) DURING STORAGE AND MAINTAIN
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • MULTI USE UTENSILS IN STORAGE CONTAINER NOT INVERTED. INSTD TO INVERT (HANDLE UP) DURING STORAGE AND MAINTAIN
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • IMPROPER CONTAINERS BEING USED FOR FOOD STORAGE, RE USING SOUR CREAM CONTAINERS. INSTD TO PROVIDE PROPER FOOD GRADE CONTAINERS DESIGNED FOR MULTI USE

When was Orion Restaurant last inspected?

Orion Restaurant has 20 inspections on record going back to April 10, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Orion Restaurant vs Garfield Ridge

Garfield Ridge runs 73% clean across 147 tracked restaurants — 107 clean, 28 mid, 11 cooked.

Against the 147 spots Cooked tracks in Garfield Ridge, this one comes out cleaner than 10% of them.

Other spots in Garfield Ridge

• ✓ Orion Restaurant
  clean · June 11, 2012
• ✓! Pizza Hut
  mid · August 14, 2014
• ✓ Bree's Thai Rice & Noodle
  clean · February 27, 2026
• ✓ Aldi Inc #53
  clean · October 11, 2011
• ✓! Kfc/Taco Bell
  mid · September 13, 2010
• ? Memorial Hall Club
  not rated · September 6, 2019

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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, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.