Jamaican Gates Restaurant

10226 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60628

Passed · May 9, 2025 Directions
72
Fair BiteKarma score 72 out of 100
How the BiteKarma score works

Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.

At a glance

  • Passed 8 of 13 graded inspections since 2020.
  • Last inspected May 9, 2025: passed with 9 violations. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
  • Keeps coming up: Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean, cited 11 times, plus 16 other repeat issues.

Inspection history 13 visits

  1. 2025
  2. Passed May 9

    Complaint

    9 violations
    • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
    • Single-use/single-service articles: properly stored and used
    • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • All food employees have food handler training
    • Food properly labeled; original container
    • Adequate ventilation and lighting; designated areas used
    • Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage and display
    • Non-food/food-contact surfaces clean
  3. Passed Mar 12

    Canvass Re-Inspection

    6 violations
    • Adequate ventilation and lighting; designated areas used
    • All food employees have food handler training
    • Personal cleanliness
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • Non-food/food-contact surfaces clean
    • Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage and display
  4. Failed Mar 4

    Canvass

    9 violations
    • Insects, rodents, and animals not present
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • Personal cleanliness
    • Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage and display
    • Proper hot holding temperatures
    • Non-food/food-contact surfaces clean
    • Previous core violation corrected
    • All food employees have food handler training
    • Adequate ventilation and lighting; designated areas used
  5. 2024
  6. Passed Jul 1

    Canvass Re-Inspection

    9 violations
    • Food properly labeled; original container
    • Thermometers provided and accurate
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • Allergen training as required
    • Adequate ventilation and lighting; designated areas used
    • Wiping cloths: properly used and stored
    • Non-food/food-contact surfaces clean
    • Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed and used
    • Single-use/single-service articles: properly stored and used

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