Pizzeria Aroma

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJanuary 24, 2018
• address1125 W Berwyn Ave, Chicago 60640

Is Pizzeria Aroma clean?

Pizzeria Aroma is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on January 24, 2018. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.

What did inspectors find at Pizzeria Aroma?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 24, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Facilities To Maintain Proper Temperature • NOTED TEMPERATURE OF SERVICE COOLER BY THE OVEN TO BE IMPROPER AT 46.5F. INSTRUCTED NOT TO USE UNTIL EQUIPMENT IS READING 40F AND BELOW. MANAGER IMMEDIATELY CALL FOR REPAIRS. CRITICAL VIOLATION #7-38-005(A)
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • NOTED INTERNAL TEMPERATURES OF THE FOLLOWING POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD ITEMS INSIDE SERVICE COOLER TO BE IMPROPER:-SAUSAGE 48.2F, MARINARA SAUCE 49.8F, ARTICHOKE 54.3F, CHCIKEN 46.4F, CHEESE 46.2F, PASTA((ASSORTED)44.8F,43.5F,47.5F). MANAGER IMMEDIATELY AND VOLUNTARILY DISPOSED OF 30 LBS OF PRODUCTS WORTH $200.00 THROUGH DENATURING PROCESS. CRITICAL VIOLATION #7-38-005(A)
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Hands Washed And Cleaned, Good Hygienic Practices; No Bare Hand Contact With Ready-To-Eat Foods. • NOTED EMPLOYEES WHILE WEARING GLOVE AND PREPARING FOOD WENT TO THE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK AND WASHED THEIR HANDS WITH GLOVES ON AND SOME DISHES THEN BACK TO THE PREP TABLE TO CONTINUE PREPPING WITHOUT CHANGING GLOVES OR WASHING HANDS. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WHILE WEARING GLOVES LEFT THE PREP AREA AND WENT TO THE WALK IN COOLER OPENED THE DOOR AND PROCEEDED TO GET CHEESE FROM TH CHEESE CONTAINER IN TO A BOWL WITH THE SAME GLOVES, THEN WENT BACK TO THE PREP AREA. ALL WITHOUT CHANGING GLOVES OR WASHING HANDS. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO ALWAYS WASH HANDS WHEN CHANGING GLOVES OR WHEN MOVING FROM ONE PREP AREA TO ANOTHER AREA OF THE KITCHEN. CRITICAL VIOLATION #7-38-010
• ⚠️Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • NOTED ASSORTED FOOD ITEMS INSIDE WALK IN COOLER AND REFRIGERATION UNITS NOT PROPERLY LABELED. INSTRUCTED TO LABEL ALL FOOD ITEMS WITH PRODUCT NAME AND/OR PREPARED BY DATE.
  Food In Original Container, Properly Labeled: Customer Advisory Posted As Needed • NOTED ASSORTED FOOD ITEMS INSIDE WALK IN COOLER AND REFRIGERATION UNITS NOT PROPERLY LABELED. INSTRUCTED TO LABEL ALL FOOD ITEMS WITH PRODUCT NAME AND/OR PREPARED BY DATE.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • NOTED TORN RUBBER GASKETS AT DOOR OF 2 DOOR REFRIGERATION UNIT AND COKE REFRIGERATION. INSTRUCTED REPAIR AND MAINTAIN AND/OR REPLACE.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • NOTED TORN RUBBER GASKETS AT DOOR OF 2 DOOR REFRIGERATION UNIT AND COKE REFRIGERATION. INSTRUCTED REPAIR AND MAINTAIN AND/OR REPLACE.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN SERVICE COOLER WITH HEAVY DIRT AND FOOD PARTICLES....MUST DETAIL CLEAN AND DEFROST THE MEAT CHEST FREEZER BY THE REAR EXIT DOOR.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN FLOORS ALONG WALL BASE AND UNDERNEATH EQUIPMENT ESPECIALLY BEHIND THE COOKING STOVE
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN FLOORS ALONG WALL BASE AND UNDERNEATH EQUIPMENT ESPECIALLY BEHIND THE COOKING STOVE
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • NOTED HEAVY DIRT AND DUST ACCUMULATION ON WALLS, CEILINGS AND FANS THROUGH OUT THE PREP AREA AND AT THE EMPLOYEE BATHROOM. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • NOTED HEAVY DIRT AND DUST ACCUMULATION ON WALLS, CEILINGS AND FANS THROUGH OUT THE PREP AREA AND AT THE EMPLOYEE BATHROOM. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.

When was Pizzeria Aroma last inspected?

Pizzeria Aroma has 13 inspections on record going back to February 9, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pizzeria Aroma vs Edgewater

Edgewater runs 64% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 633 clean, 186 mid, 172 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 January 24, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.