Tropical Smoothie Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 15, 2020
• address6448 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago 60626

Is Tropical Smoothie Cafe clean?

Tropical Smoothie Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 15, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Tropical Smoothie Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 15, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • NOTED NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON SITE AT THE TIME OF INSPECTION FOLLOWING THE NEW CODE AND GUIDELINES. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE VERIFICATION OF POLICY FOR EACH EMPLOYEE ONE ON SITE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION #7-38-010. NO CITATION ISSUED TODAY
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • NOTED A SPLASH GUARD BETWEEN PREP TABLE AND THE EXPOSED HAND WASH SINK AT THE FRONT PREP AREA; HOWEVER THE SPLASH GUARD IS NOT TALL ENOUGH TO PREVENT WATER SPLASHING ON THE PREP TABLE FROM THE HAND SINK DURING HAND WASHING TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION (SHORT). INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A SPLASH GUARD (TALLER)THAT CAN PREVENT CONTAMINATION.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • NOTED A SPLASH GUARD BETWEEN PREP TABLE AND THE EXPOSED HAND WASH SINK AT THE FRONT PREP AREA; HOWEVER THE SPLASH GUARD IS NOT TALL ENOUGH TO PREVENT WATER SPLASHING ON THE PREP TABLE FROM THE HAND SINK DURING HAND WASHING TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION (SHORT). INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A SPLASH GUARD (TALLER)THAT CAN PREVENT CONTAMINATION.

When was Tropical Smoothie Cafe last inspected?

Tropical Smoothie Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to July 31, 2020.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe vs Edgewater

Edgewater runs 64% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 633 clean, 186 mid, 172 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Edgewater, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.

Other spots in Edgewater

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  clean · September 9, 2020
• ✓ Gino's North Pizzeria
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• ✓ Gopuff
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• ✓ Rewired Cafe
  clean · October 13, 2020
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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 September 15, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.