Pick Me Up Cafe

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeComplaint
• failed findings3
• critical findings2

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Failed findings

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Official wording: Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting
  Inspector note: 2-102.14(A)(A)FOUND NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY. PRIORITY VIOLATION. 7-38-012A. MUST PROVIDE.
  code 3Priority
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Official wording: Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
  Inspector note: 2-501.11 FOUND NO VOMIT AND DIARRHEAL CLEANUP PROCEDURE. PRIORITY VIOLATION. 7-38-005. MUST PROVIDE.
  code 5Priority
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Official wording: Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
  Inspector note: 5-202.14 FOUND NO BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICES FOR THE FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT: ESPRESSO MACHINE, COFFEE DRIP MACHINE, AND ICE MACHINE.PRIORITY VIOLATION. CITATION ISSUED. 7-38-030(C) MUST INSTALL BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICES AT WATERLINES FOR EQUIPMENT MENTIONED.
  code 51

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass w/ Conditions on August 16, 2017: 3 findings appeared for the first time. 4 previous findings did not recur.

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This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

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