Payless Grocery & Fast Food

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 21, 2012
• address1542 W 69Th St, Chicago 60636
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Payless Grocery & Fast Food clean?

Payless Grocery & Fast Food is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 21, 2012. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Payless Grocery & Fast Food?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 21, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • DEFROST FRONT BOX FREEZER (EXCESSIVE ICE), CLEAN INTERIOR OF MICROWAVE.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • CLEAN FLOOR UNDER AND AROUND STORAGE SHELVES, AND IN BASEMENT.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • CLEAN FLOOR UNDER AND AROUND STORAGE SHELVES, AND IN BASEMENT.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • REPLACE ALL WATER DAMAGED CEILING TILES THRU-OUT.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • REPLACE ALL WATER DAMAGED CEILING TILES THRU-OUT.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Lighting: Required Minimum Foot-Candles Of Light Provided, Fixtures Shielded • MISSING REAR PREP AREA LIGHT SHIELD MUST BE REPLACED.

When was Payless Grocery & Fast Food last inspected?

Payless Grocery & Fast Food has 5 inspections on record going back to May 19, 2011.

Payless Grocery & Fast Food vs West Englewood

West Englewood runs 64% clean across 399 tracked restaurants — 254 clean, 56 mid, 85 cooked.

Against the 399 spots Cooked tracks in West Englewood, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 21, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.