Perk Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 4, 2018
• address200 E Randolph St, Chicago 60601

Is Perk Cafe clean?

Perk Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 4, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Perk Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 4, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • NO DRAIN BOARD NOTED AT 3-COMP SINK, INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL.
  Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • NO DRAIN BOARD NOTED AT 3-COMP SINK, INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • 2-501.11 (A) NO VOMIT/ DIARRHEA CLEANUP KIT, NO PROCEDURE ON SITE, INSTRUCTED TO OBTAIN.

When was Perk Cafe last inspected?

Perk Cafe has 5 inspections on record going back to December 14, 2015.

Perk Cafe vs Loop

Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 4, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.