The Tower Club

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 23, 2011
• address20 N Wacker Dr, Chicago 60606

Is The Tower Club clean?

The Tower Club is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 23, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Tower Club?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 23, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • All food and non-food contact equipment and utensils shall be smooth, easily cleanable, and durable, and shall be in good repair. PREP AREA REACH IN DOOR COOLERS AND WALK IN COOLERS DOOR GASKETS RIPPED/MISSING. MUST REPAIR AND MAINTAIN COOLER DOOR GASKETS.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • All food and non-food contact equipment and utensils shall be smooth, easily cleanable, and durable, and shall be in good repair. PREP AREA REACH IN DOOR COOLERS AND WALK IN COOLERS DOOR GASKETS RIPPED/MISSING. MUST REPAIR AND MAINTAIN COOLER DOOR GASKETS.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • All food and non-food contact surfaces of equipment and all food storage utensils shall be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized daily. THE FOLLOWING NOT CLEAN- OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS ON PREP AREA SHELVES, SLIGHT LIME BUILD UP INISDE ICE MACHINE, INTERIOR OF FRYERS. MUST CLEAN AND MAINTAIN ALL UNCLEAN EQUIPMENT.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • The floors shall be constructed per code, be smooth and easily cleaned, and be kept clean and in good repair. OBSERVED STANDING WATER ON FLOOR(BY FLOOR DRAIN) IN DISHMACHINE ROOM AND FOOD DEBRIS ON FLOOR IN PREP AREA UNDER AND AROUND COOKING EQUIPMENT. MUST DETAIL CLEAN FLOOR/KEEP FLOOR DRY THROUGOUT PREP AND DISHMACHINE AREA.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • The floors shall be constructed per code, be smooth and easily cleaned, and be kept clean and in good repair. OBSERVED STANDING WATER ON FLOOR(BY FLOOR DRAIN) IN DISHMACHINE ROOM AND FOOD DEBRIS ON FLOOR IN PREP AREA UNDER AND AROUND COOKING EQUIPMENT. MUST DETAIL CLEAN FLOOR/KEEP FLOOR DRY THROUGOUT PREP AND DISHMACHINE AREA.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • Ventilation: All plumbing fixtures, such as toilets, sinks, washbasins, etc., must be adequately trapped, vented, and re-vented and properly connected to the sewer in accordance with the plumbing chapter of the Municipal Code of Chicago and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Health. PREP AREA HANDWASH BOWL DRAINING SLOWLY AND PREP AREA 3-COMPARTMENT SINK PIPE LEAKING. MUST REPAIR AND MAINTAIN SINKS.

When was The Tower Club last inspected?

The Tower Club has 4 inspections on record going back to August 4, 2010.

The Tower Club vs Loop

Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 August 23, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.