Whale Fish & Chicken

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 5, 2016
• address1828 W 79Th St, Chicago 60620

Is Whale Fish & Chicken clean?

Whale Fish & Chicken is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 5, 2016. 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 Whale Fish & Chicken?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 5, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Potentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • OBSERVED POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOODS, 80LBS OF RAW CHICKEN WINGS AT IMPROPER TEMPERATURES 50.8F-51.1F SITTING IN THE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE COLD POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD ITEMS AT 40.0F OR BELOW. MANAGER VOLUNTARILY DISCARDED AND DENATURED 80LBS OF RAW CHICKEN WINGS VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $180. CRITICAL VIOLATION 7-38-005(A)
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • OBSERVED THE GASKETS OF THE 3 DOOR PREP COOLER WITH ACCUMULATED FLOUR AND FOOD DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN ALL GASKETS.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • OBSERVED THE FLOOR UNDER ALL EQUIPMENT WITH ACCUMULATED FLOUR AND FOOD DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • OBSERVED THE FLOOR UNDER ALL EQUIPMENT WITH ACCUMULATED FLOUR AND FOOD DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS.

When was Whale Fish & Chicken last inspected?

Whale Fish & Chicken has 4 inspections on record going back to October 3, 2013.

Whale Fish & Chicken vs Auburn Gresham

Auburn Gresham runs 68% clean across 527 tracked restaurants — 351 clean, 82 mid, 86 cooked.

Against the 527 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn Gresham, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 February 5, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.