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Tom Lee's Chop Suey
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 14, 2023
- address4660 N Western Ave, Chicago 60625
Is Tom Lee's Chop Suey clean?
Tom Lee's Chop Suey is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 14, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tom Lee's Chop Suey?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 14, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • 3-307.11 OBSERVED EMPLOYEE FOOD STORED NEAR RESTAURANT FOOD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO STORE RESTAURANT FOOD AND EMPLOYEE FOOD TO AVOID CROSS CONTAMINATION.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • 3-307.11 OBSERVED EMPLOYEE FOOD STORED NEAR RESTAURANT FOOD. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO STORE RESTAURANT FOOD AND EMPLOYEE FOOD TO AVOID CROSS CONTAMINATION.
When was Tom Lee's Chop Suey last inspected?
Tom Lee's Chop Suey has 21 inspections on record going back to April 14, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| August 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 7, 2023 | Fail | |
| June 24, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 8, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 12, 2019 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 21, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 19, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 18, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Tom Lee's Chop Suey vs Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square runs 59% clean across 922 tracked restaurants — 536 clean, 152 mid, 228 cooked.
Against the 922 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 44% 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 14, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.