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 • NO WRITTEN EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY PROVIDED ON THE PREMISES. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE A SIGNED EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY FOR EACH EMPLOYEE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-010 NO CITATION ISSUED
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • 2-501.11 NO CLEAN-UP PROCEDURE ON PREMISES FOR VOMIT AND DIARRHEAL EVENTS. MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A CLEAN-UP PROCEDURE AND SUPPLIES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005. NO CITATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • FRONT DISPLAY SNEEZE GUARD IS INEFFECTIVE AT TOP OF DISPLAY. RECOMMEND ADDITION GLASS AT AN ANGLE. INSTALL AND MAINTAIN.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • FRONT DISPLAY SNEEZE GUARD IS INEFFECTIVE AT TOP OF DISPLAY. RECOMMEND ADDITION GLASS AT AN ANGLE. INSTALL AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • MUST DETAIL CLEAN INTERIOR OF ALL REACH IN COOLERS TO REMOVE ALL FOOD SPILLS. CORRECT AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • FLOORS AND WALLS IN FOOD PREP AND REAR FOOD PREP IN NEED OF DETAIL CLEANING TO REMOVE ALL SPILLS AND SPLATTERS. CORRECT AND MAINTAIN.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • PA 100-0367 THE CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER DID NOT HAVE THE ALLERGEN TRAINING. MUST SHOW PROOF OF TRAINING

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 72% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,463 clean, 406 mid, 151 cooked.

Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

Other spots in Near West Side

• ✓! Warm Belly Bakery
  mid · March 12, 2019
• ? Crave B2B, Llc
  not rated · December 28, 2018
• ✓ Main Cafeteria/Warming Kitchen
  clean · October 31, 2017
• ✓ Phlavz Bar & Grille
  clean · May 28, 2021
• ✓ Dunkin Donuts
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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.

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.