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Nick's Drive Inn
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 17, 2025
- address7216 N Harlem Ave, Chicago 60631
Is Nick's Drive Inn clean?
Nick's Drive Inn is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 17, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Nick's Drive Inn?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED ALL FOOD HANDLER CARDS ON SITE ARE EXPIRED. INSTRUCTED ALL EMPLOYEES MUST COMPLETE FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN RECORDS THEREOF ON SITE AT ALL TIMES.All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED ALL FOOD HANDLER CARDS ON SITE ARE EXPIRED. INSTRUCTED ALL EMPLOYEES MUST COMPLETE FOOD HANDLER TRAINING AND MAINTAIN RECORDS THEREOF ON SITE AT ALL TIMES.
When was Nick's Drive Inn last inspected?
Nick's Drive Inn has 23 inspections on record going back to June 9, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 25, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 9, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 24, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 26, 2020 | Pass | |
| June 24, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 25, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 18, 2019 | Fail | |
| November 28, 2017 | Pass |
Nick's Drive Inn vs Edison Park
Edison Park runs 68% clean across 114 tracked restaurants — 77 clean, 22 mid, 15 cooked.
Against the 114 spots Cooked tracks in Edison Park, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 January 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.