Warm Belly Bakery

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 12, 2019 →
• address1148 W Monroe Ave, Chicago 60607

Is Warm Belly Bakery clean?

Warm Belly Bakery is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 12, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Warm Belly Bakery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 12, 2019, 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
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events

When was Warm Belly Bakery last inspected?

Warm Belly Bakery has 4 inspections on record going back to February 16, 2016.

Warm Belly Bakery vs Near West Side

Near West Side runs 80% clean across 1,294 tracked restaurants — 1,031 clean, 233 mid, 18 cooked.

Against the 1,294 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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• ✓! Warm Belly Bakery
  mid · March 12, 2019
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• ✓ Main Cafeteria/Warming Kitchen
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• ✓ Phlavz Bar & Grille
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• ✓ Malcolm X College
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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 12, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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