Harold's Chicken Shack

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 3, 2025
• address7318 S Vincennes Ave, Chicago 60621

Is Harold's Chicken Shack clean?

Harold's Chicken Shack is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 3, 2025. 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 February 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • DRAINBOARD NOT ATTACHED THE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED TO ATTACHED AND MAINTAIN.
  Warewashing Facilities: Installed, Maintained & Used; Test Strips • DRAINBOARD NOT ATTACHED THE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED TO ATTACHED AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • INTERIOR/EXTERIOR OF THE FRYERS WITH GREASE, FOOD AND DIRT BUILD UP. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • THE BASE OF THE FAUCET ON THE 3-COMPARTMENT SINKS LEAKS. INSTRUCTED TO FIX AND MAINTAIN GOOD PLUMBING. • MOP SINK HAS NO BACK FLOW PREVENTION DEVICE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A BACK FLOW PREVENTION DEVICE AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • SELF CLOSING DEVISE IS UNATTACHED FROM TOILET ROOM DOOR. INSTRUCTED TO ATTACH AND MAINTAIN.
  Toilet Facilities: Properly Constructed, Supplied, & Cleaned • SELF CLOSING DEVISE IS UNATTACHED FROM TOILET ROOM DOOR. INSTRUCTED TO ATTACH AND MAINTAIN.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • CEILING TILES IN THE FRONT AND REAR ARE DAMAGED/IN POOR REPAIR. INSTRUCTED TO REPLACE AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLERS TRAINING CERTIFICATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES HANDLING FOOD. INSTRUCTED TO OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN VALID CERTIFICATES.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLERS TRAINING CERTIFICATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES HANDLING FOOD. INSTRUCTED TO OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN VALID CERTIFICATES.

When was Harold's Chicken Shack last inspected?

Harold's Chicken Shack has 16 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Harold's Chicken Shack vs Greater Grand Crossing

Greater Grand Crossing runs 64% clean across 489 tracked restaurants — 312 clean, 67 mid, 106 cooked.

Against the 489 spots Cooked tracks in Greater Grand Crossing, this one comes out cleaner than 38% of them.

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  mid · September 12, 2017
• ✓ Fine Select Seafood And Meats, Inc
  clean · November 4, 2016
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• ✓ Soul Food Heaven
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• ✓ Phillips Conoco At 67Th St. Inc
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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 February 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.