Quench The Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 8, 2010
• address616 E 79Th St, Chicago 60619

Is Quench The Cafe clean?

Quench The Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 8, 2010. 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 Quench The Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 8, 2010, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • TURKEY STEAKS IN REACH-IN COOLER AT IMPROPER HOLDING TEMPERATURE OF 50.1F IN REACH-IN COOLER. PRODUCT DISCARDED AND DENATURED. ALSO, COOKED MASHED POTATOES AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURE OF 122.8F AT STEAMTABLE. INSTD TO RAPIDLY REHEAT TO 165F. INSTD TO KEEP COLD FOODS 40F OR BELOW AND HOT FOODS 140F OR ABOVE. CITATION ISSUED 7-38-005A CRITICAL. APPROX. 5LBS DISCARDED $20 value.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • INTERIOR BOTTOM OF FRYERS NOT CLEAN EXCESSIVE GREASE. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN SAME.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FLOOR WITH EXCESSIVE GREASE BUILD-UP, ENCRUSTED ON FLOORS UNDERNEATH FRYERS. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FLOOR WITH EXCESSIVE GREASE BUILD-UP, ENCRUSTED ON FLOORS UNDERNEATH FRYERS. CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • INTERIOR OF HOOD WITH EXCESSIVE GREASE/DUST ACCUMULATION. CLEAN SAME AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • INTERIOR OF HOOD WITH EXCESSIVE GREASE/DUST ACCUMULATION. CLEAN SAME AND MAINTAIN.

When was Quench The Cafe last inspected?

Quench The Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2010.

Quench The Cafe vs Chatham

Chatham runs 62% clean across 443 tracked restaurants — 275 clean, 85 mid, 81 cooked.

Against the 443 spots Cooked tracks in Chatham, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 November 8, 2010. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.