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Whispers Coffee & Tea
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 21, 2012
- address520 N Michigan Ave, Chicago 60611
Is Whispers Coffee & Tea clean?
Whispers Coffee & Tea is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on March 21, 2012. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Whispers Coffee & Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 21, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • All food establishments that display, prepare, or store potentially hazardous foods shall have calibrated metal stem thermometers, provided and conspicuous, for refrigerated and hot food units. MUST PROVIDE THERMOMETER TO ALL COOLERS.Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • All food establishments that display, prepare, or store potentially hazardous foods shall have calibrated metal stem thermometers, provided and conspicuous, for refrigerated and hot food units. MUST PROVIDE THERMOMETER TO ALL COOLERS.
- ⚠️Appropriate Method Of Handling Of Food (Ice) Hair Restraints And Clean Apparel Worn • Only employees must dispense ice for consumer use with scoops, tongs, or other ice dispensing utensils. Customers must dispense ice through appropriate automatic self-service ice dispensing equipment. MUST STORE ICE SCOOP OFF ICE CUBES IN FRONT BIN.Appropriate Method Of Handling Of Food (Ice) Hair Restraints And Clean Apparel Worn • Only employees must dispense ice for consumer use with scoops, tongs, or other ice dispensing utensils. Customers must dispense ice through appropriate automatic self-service ice dispensing equipment. MUST STORE ICE SCOOP OFF ICE CUBES IN FRONT BIN.
- 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcriticalPotentially Hazardous Food Meets Temperature Requirement During Storage, Preparation Display And Service • All cold food shall be stored at a temperature of 40F or less. FOUND 3 GALLONS OF MILK AND 2 QUARTS OF HEAVY CREAM AT 52.3 KEPT IN PREP COOLER, DOOR OF PREP COOLER WAS PROPPED OPEN BY A ELECTIC CORD CAUSING THE TEMPS OF PRODUCT NEAR THE COOLER DOOR TO RISE, INSTRUCTED MGR TO STORE ALL PERISHABLES AT 40F OR LOWER. ITEMS DISCARDED VALUED AT $12.00.
When was Whispers Coffee & Tea last inspected?
Whispers Coffee & Tea has 3 inspections on record going back to October 7, 2011.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 3, 2014 | closed by the city | |
| March 21, 2012 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 7, 2011 | Pass |
Whispers Coffee & Tea vs Near North Side
Near North Side runs 75% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 2,147 clean, 530 mid, 203 cooked.
Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 March 21, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.