Noodles & Company

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 17, 2026 →
• address1 S Franklin St, Chicago 60606

Is Noodles & Company clean?

Noodles & Company is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on February 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Noodles & Company?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food prep surfaces dirty
  Proper Cooling Methods Used; Adequate Equipment For Temperature Control
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was Noodles & Company last inspected?

Noodles & Company has 23 inspections on record going back to September 17, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 3 of these 12 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Noodles & Company vs Loop

Loop runs 82% clean across 2,016 tracked restaurants — 1,619 clean, 324 mid, 43 cooked.

Against the 2,016 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.

Other spots in Loop

• ✓ Noodles & Company
  clean · September 17, 2013
• ✓ Goodwin's
  clean · August 1, 2014
• ✓ Naf Naf Grill
  cooked · July 20, 2022
• ✓! Gepade Caffe
  cooked · June 22, 2017
• ✓ Burger King
  clean · May 7, 2024
• ✓ Banquets/ Employees Cafetria
  clean · June 27, 2013

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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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