Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 14, 2021
• address1457 N Halsted, Chicago 60642

Is Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity clean?

Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on July 14, 2021. 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 Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 14, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • THE PERSON IN CHARGE DID NOT HAVE A CITY OF CHICAGO FOOD SANITATION LICENSE ONSITE, OBSERVED NO VALID SANITATION LICENSE POSTED. WHILE TCS FOODS, MILK, IS CEING SERVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-012 CITATION ISSUED.
• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • OBSERVED NO WRITTEN EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON SITE. INSTRUCTED FACILITY TO ESTABLISH AN APPROPRIATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY AND MAINTAIN WITH VERIFIABLE SIGNED COPIES ON SITE FOR ALL FOOD EMPLOYEES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION #7-38-010. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED FOOD STORAGE CONTAINER WITH SUGAR INSIDE NOT LABELED, INSTRUCTED TO LABEL FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS WITH COMMON FOOD NAMES WHEN FOOD HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM ORIGINAL PACKAGING.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATES FOR EMPLOYEES. INSTRUCTED TO OBTAIN FOR ALL NEW EMPLOYEES AND MAINTAIN.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATES FOR EMPLOYEES. INSTRUCTED TO OBTAIN FOR ALL NEW EMPLOYEES AND MAINTAIN.

When was Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity last inspected?

Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity has 4 inspections on record going back to December 11, 2020.

Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Newcity vs Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park runs 41% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 673 clean, 174 mid, 789 cooked.

Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, 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 July 14, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.