Thompson Chicago

• official resultPass w/ Conditions
• resultPass w/ Conditions
• inspection typeCanvass
• failed findings6
• critical findings3

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Failed findings

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Official wording: Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
  code 1Priority
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  Official wording: City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
  Inspector note: No certified food service manager on site while handling and serving TCS foods, instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
  code 2Priority
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  Official wording: Proper Eating, Tasting, Drinking, Or Tobacco Use
  Inspector note: Employees are improperly tasting food. Observed a cook dipping his finger in a pot of food on stove top and licking it, then use a cloth towel to wipe finger. Instructed manager to use utensils when tasting food. priority violation 7-38-010.
  code 6Priority
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Official wording: Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
  Inspector note: Low temp dish machine not sanitizing at final rinse, 0ppm obtained at chlorine test strips. instructed manager to provide proper sanitizer concertation at final rinse. Priority violation 7-38-025.
  code 16
• 🧪toxic chemicals mishandled
  Official wording: Compliance With Variance/Specialized Process/Haccp
  Inspector note: No approved variance or developed HACCP plans on site for the ROP operation, found a several food items that are vacuum packaged on site, a large vacuum packaging machine at main kitchen. machine is Tagged, instructed manager to discontinue this process until proper approval/variance is obtained. priority foundation violation 7-38-005. machine is tagged not allowed to use, 20 lbs of several food items discarded valued at $200.
  code 29
• ⚠️Variance Obtained For Specialized Processing Methods
  Inspector note: Refer to violation 29 for citation.
  code 32

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Pass w/ Conditions on January 25, 2022: 5 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 1 previous finding did not recur.

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This record comes from Chicago Department of Public Health. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

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