Harold's Chicken

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 17, 2015
• address636 S Wabash Ave, Chicago 60605

Is Harold's Chicken clean?

Harold's Chicken is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 17, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Harold's Chicken?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 17, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • OBSERVED THE FLOOR BEHIND THE FRYERS WITH FOOD DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN THE FLOOR.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • OBSERVED THE FLOOR BEHIND THE FRYERS WITH FOOD DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN THE FLOOR.
• ⚠️Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED THE CEILING LEAKING IN THE HALL WAY NEAR THE BACK DOOR. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN ALL LEAKING. • OBSERVED THE CEILING TILES MISSING THROUGHOUT THE PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ALL CEILING TILES.
  Walls, Ceilings, Attached Equipment Constructed Per Code: Good Repair, Surfaces Clean And Dust-Less Cleaning Methods • OBSERVED THE CEILING LEAKING IN THE HALL WAY NEAR THE BACK DOOR. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN ALL LEAKING. • OBSERVED THE CEILING TILES MISSING THROUGHOUT THE PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ALL CEILING TILES.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Ventilation: Rooms And Equipment Vented As Required: Plumbing: Installed And Maintained • OBSERVED THE LARGE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK NOT DRAINING PROPERLY. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING.
• ⚠️Food Handler Requirements Met • OBSERVED FOOD HANDLERS WITHOUT PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER EDUCATION. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER EDUCATION.
  Food Handler Requirements Met • OBSERVED FOOD HANDLERS WITHOUT PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER EDUCATION. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN PROOF OF FOOD HANDLER EDUCATION.

When was Harold's Chicken last inspected?

Harold's Chicken has 12 inspections on record going back to October 6, 2010.

Harold's Chicken vs Loop

Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 August 17, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.