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Thomas Coffee Shop
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 19, 2026
- address1657 E 87Th St, Chicago 60617
Is Thomas Coffee Shop clean?
Thomas Coffee Shop is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Thomas Coffee Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • 4-502.13 OBSERVED CARDBOARD BEING REUSED AS A FLOOR LINER UNDER THE RUBBER MATS BY THE COOK LINE. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE AND DO NOT REUSE CARDBOARD, ALL SURFACES SHOULD BE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • 4-502.13 OBSERVED CARDBOARD BEING REUSED AS A FLOOR LINER UNDER THE RUBBER MATS BY THE COOK LINE. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE AND DO NOT REUSE CARDBOARD, ALL SURFACES SHOULD BE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE.
When was Thomas Coffee Shop last inspected?
Thomas Coffee Shop has 41 inspections on record going back to January 10, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| February 19, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 8, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 26, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 9, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 7, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 15, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 14, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 21, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2021 | Fail |
Thomas Coffee Shop vs Avalon Park
Avalon Park runs 72% clean across 334 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 53 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 334 spots Cooked tracks in Avalon Park, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 February 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.