Pi-Hi Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJune 23, 2017
• address3539 N Western Ave, Chicago 60618

Is Pi-Hi Cafe clean?

Pi-Hi Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 23, 2017. 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 Pi-Hi Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 23, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Facilities To Maintain Proper Temperature • 1-DOOR PREP MEAT REACH IN COOLER NOT MAINTAINED, AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE AT 71.4 F. FOUND CHICKEN, BEEF, ETC. HELD INSIDE SAID COOLER. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO REPAIR COOLER, AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE MUST BE 40 F OR BELOW. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-005(A).
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • FOUND THE FOLLOWING POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS FOUND AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURES- CHICKEN AT 65.0 F, COOKED CHICK PEAS AT 51.2 F AND BEEF AT 62.1 F. INSTRUCTED MANAGER POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS MUST BE HELD AT 40 F OR BELOW IF HELD COLD. ALL OUT OF TEMPERATURE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS HAVE BEEN VOLUNTARILLY DISCARDED. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-005(A).

When was Pi-Hi Cafe last inspected?

Pi-Hi Cafe has 6 inspections on record going back to November 12, 2013.

Pi-Hi Cafe 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 18% 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 June 23, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.