Marzeya Bakery

8908 S Commercial Ave, Chicago, IL 60617

Passed re-check · Oct 30, 2025 Directions
90
Excellent BiteKarma score 90 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 3 of 4 graded inspections since 2020.
  • Last inspected Oct 30, 2025: passed with 3 violations. That was a follow-up after failing on Oct 22, 2025. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
  • Keeps coming up: Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices, cited 4 times, plus 3 other repeat issues.

Inspection history 6 visits

  1. 2025
  2. Passed Oct 30

    Canvass Re-Inspection

    3 violations
    • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
    • Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed and used
    • Personal cleanliness
  3. Failed Oct 22

    Canvass Re-Inspection

    4 violations
    • Personal cleanliness
    • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
    • Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible
    • Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed and used
  4. 2024
  5. Passed Dec 17

    Canvass

    9 violations
    • Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage and display
    • Person in charge present, demonstrates knowledge, and performs duties
    • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
    • Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed and used
    • Single-use/single-service articles: properly stored and used
    • Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use
    • City of Chicago food service sanitation certificate
    • Physical facilities installed, maintained and clean
    • Food properly labeled; original container
  6. 2020
  7. Passed Mar 18

    License

    3 violations
    • Food properly labeled; original container
    • Procedures for responding to vomiting and diarrheal events
    • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices

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