Rio Tacos

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 21, 2020
• address3246 W Foster Ave, Chicago 60625

Is Rio Tacos clean?

Rio Tacos is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 21, 2020. 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 Rio Tacos?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 21, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • OBSERVED NO WRITTEN EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON THE PREMISES. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED TO HAVE A SIGNED EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY FROM EACH EMPLOYEE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-010. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • DETAIL CLEAN THE PREP TABLES IN THE REAR PREP AREA, AND THE INTERIOR OF ALL COOLERS AND FREEZERS.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • CLEAN THE FLOOR AND WALLS IN THE REAR FOOD PREP AREA. • OBSERVED CHIPPED PAINT ON THE WALL IN THE FRONT FOOD PREP AREA. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED TO SCRAPE AND REPAINT THE WALL IN THIS AREA.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • OBSERVED THE CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER WITHOUT AN ALLERGEN TRAINING CERTIFICATE. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED THAT ALL CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF TRAINING.

When was Rio Tacos last inspected?

Rio Tacos has 4 inspections on record going back to August 12, 2019.

Rio Tacos vs North Park

North Park runs 61% clean across 224 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 37 mid, 51 cooked.

Against the 224 spots Cooked tracks in North Park, this one comes out cleaner than 29% of them.

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• ✓ Rio Tacos
  clean · August 21, 2023
• ✓! Foster Shell
  mid · June 18, 2020
• ✓! Target
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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 December 21, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.