Vapiano

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 10, 2014
• address2573-2581 N Clark St, Chicago 60614

Is Vapiano clean?

Vapiano is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 10, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Vapiano?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 10, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • OBSERVED CUSTOMER UTENSILS NOT PROPERLY STORED. INSTRUCTED TO STORE UPRIGHT AND MAINTAIN.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • OBSERVED CUSTOMER UTENSILS NOT PROPERLY STORED. INSTRUCTED TO STORE UPRIGHT AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED DAMAGED AND DIRTY CAULKING AROUND 3 COMPARTMENT SINK IN BACK OF RESTAURANT. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE, REPLACE, AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED WORN AND DAMAGED GASKETS ON REACH IN COOLERS IN FRONT FOOD PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
  Food And Non-Food Contact Surfaces Properly Designed, Constructed And Maintained • OBSERVED DAMAGED AND DIRTY CAULKING AROUND 3 COMPARTMENT SINK IN BACK OF RESTAURANT. INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE, REPLACE, AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED WORN AND DAMAGED GASKETS ON REACH IN COOLERS IN FRONT FOOD PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED CRACKED CEILING ABOVE REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED GAPS WHERE PIPES PASSED THROUGH WALLS AND CEILINGS IN BASEMENT HOT WATER HEATER ROOM. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL ALL GAPS AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED WALL IN HOT WATER HEATER ROOM DAMAGED WITH BLACK MOLD-LIKE SUBSTANCE ON LOWER PORTION. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR, CLEAN, AND MAINTAIN.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED CRACKED CEILING ABOVE REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED GAPS WHERE PIPES PASSED THROUGH WALLS AND CEILINGS IN BASEMENT HOT WATER HEATER ROOM. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL ALL GAPS AND MAINTAIN. OBSERVED WALL IN HOT WATER HEATER ROOM DAMAGED WITH BLACK MOLD-LIKE SUBSTANCE ON LOWER PORTION. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR, CLEAN, AND MAINTAIN.
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  Premises Maintained Free Of Litter, Unnecessary Articles, Cleaning Equipment Properly Stored • OBSERVED UNUSED ITEMS ON FLOOR IN BASEMENT. INSTRUCTED TO ORGANIZE AND STORE OFF FROM THE FLOOR.

When was Vapiano last inspected?

Vapiano has 7 inspections on record going back to September 28, 2011.

Vapiano vs Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.

Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 36% of them.

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• ✕ Star Fish & Chicken
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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 10, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.