Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc.

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 14, 2012
• address1852 W North Ave, Chicago 60622

Is Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc. clean?

Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc. is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on November 14, 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 Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 14, 2012, 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 • Must properly store,invert clean multi-use utensils,pots,pans,single articles to prevent contamination before use.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • Must properly store,invert clean multi-use utensils,pots,pans,single articles to prevent contamination before use.
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  Lighting: Required Minimum Foot-Candles Of Light Provided, Fixtures Shielded • Light shields are needed at the lights over the chest freezers.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • Must provide,maintain a backflow prevention device to the mop sink,repair slow draining exposed handsink at cookline.
• ⚠️Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • Must provide,maintain a metal stem thermometer to monitor food temperatures.
  Refrigeration And Metal Stem Thermometers Provided And Conspicuous • Must provide,maintain a metal stem thermometer to monitor food temperatures.

When was Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc. last inspected?

Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc. has 2 inspections on record going back to November 14, 2012.

Zen Rice And Noodle,Inc. vs West Town

West Town runs 46% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 955 clean, 252 mid, 850 cooked.

Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, 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 November 14, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.