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Pancho's Ice Cream
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 24, 2025
- address4055 W 31St St, Chicago 60623
Is Pancho's Ice Cream clean?
Pancho's Ice Cream is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on June 24, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pancho's Ice Cream?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • CLEANING SUPPLIES STORED ABOVE THE HAND WASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY STORE CLEANING SUPPLIES AWAY FROM PREP/DISH WASHING AREA. MAINTAIN SAME.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • CLEANING SUPPLIES STORED ABOVE THE HAND WASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED TO PROPERLY STORE CLEANING SUPPLIES AWAY FROM PREP/DISH WASHING AREA. MAINTAIN SAME.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • LEAK AT THE BASE OF THE HOT WATER KNOB ON THE REAR 3-COMPARTMENT SINK. INSTRUCTED TO FIX AND MAINTAIN GOOD PLUMBING.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • FLOORS IN THE CORNERS AND BEHIND THE COOLERS WITH DIRT AND DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS.
When was Pancho's Ice Cream last inspected?
Pancho's Ice Cream has 15 inspections on record going back to May 16, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 11, 2024 | — | |
| July 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 10, 2020 | Pass | |
| June 19, 2019 | Pass | |
| July 11, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 3, 2018 | Fail | |
| June 29, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 22, 2017 | Fail | |
| May 26, 2016 | Pass |
Pancho's Ice Cream vs South Lawndale
South Lawndale runs 64% clean across 668 tracked restaurants — 427 clean, 92 mid, 146 cooked.
Against the 668 spots Cooked tracks in South Lawndale, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 June 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.