Harold's Chicken Shack

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 5, 2011
• address6241 S Ashland Ave, Chicago 60636

Is Harold's Chicken Shack clean?

Harold's Chicken Shack is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 5, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Harold's Chicken Shack?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 5, 2011, 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 • Containers and utensils shall be inverted, covered, or otherwise protected from contamination until used. All single-service drinking straws and containers shall be discarded immediately after use. INVERT SINGLE PLASTIC UTENSILS AND CONTAINERS TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
  Clean Multi-Use Utensils And Single Service Articles Properly Stored: No Reuse Of Single Service Articles • Containers and utensils shall be inverted, covered, or otherwise protected from contamination until used. All single-service drinking straws and containers shall be discarded immediately after use. INVERT SINGLE PLASTIC UTENSILS AND CONTAINERS TO PROTECT FROM CONTAMINATION.
• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Food And Non-Food Contact Equipment Utensils Clean, Free Of Abrasive Detergents • All food and non-food contact surfaces of equipment and all food storage utensils shall be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized daily. CLEAN INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OF ALL FRYERS (GREASE BUILDUP), COOLERS (DUST BUILDUP).
• ⚠️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. PROVIDE THERMOMETERS IN 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. PROVIDE THERMOMETERS IN ALL COOLERS.
• ⚠️Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • PROVIDE LONG HANDLE UTENSILS FOR DISPENSING COLESLAW.
  Food (Ice) Dispensing Utensils, Wash Cloths Properly Stored • PROVIDE LONG HANDLE UTENSILS FOR DISPENSING COLESLAW.
• ⚠️Only Authorized Personnel In The Food-Prep Area • The traffic of unnecessary persons through the food preparation and the utensil washing areas is prohibited. ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED IN FOOD PREP AREA.
  Only Authorized Personnel In The Food-Prep Area • The traffic of unnecessary persons through the food preparation and the utensil washing areas is prohibited. ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED IN FOOD PREP AREA.

When was Harold's Chicken Shack last inspected?

Harold's Chicken Shack has 5 inspections on record going back to November 10, 2010.

Harold's Chicken Shack vs West Englewood

West Englewood runs 64% clean across 399 tracked restaurants — 254 clean, 56 mid, 85 cooked.

Against the 399 spots Cooked tracks in West Englewood, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 December 5, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.