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Five Guys
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 10, 2025
- address703 S Seeley Ave, Chicago 60612
Is Five Guys clean?
Five Guys is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 10, 2025. 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 Five Guys?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋certified manager paperwork missingcriticalCity Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • 2-101.11 NO CITY OF CHICAGO CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER WAS PRESENT WHILE TCS FOODS (HAMBURGERS AND HOT DOGS) WERE BEING PREPARED AND SERVED. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT THAT A CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER MUST BE PRESENT AT ALL TIMES WHILE TCS FOODS ARE BEING PREPARED OR SERVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.12 FLOORS NEED CLEANING AROUND THE SELF-SERVE POP MACHINE AND ALONG THE WALL UNDER THE 3 COMP SINK.
When was Five Guys last inspected?
Five Guys has 6 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2021.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 23, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 9, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 8, 2021 | Fail |
Five Guys vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 50% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,019 clean, 227 mid, 774 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 September 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.