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Panera Bread
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 8, 2026
- address6059 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago 60659
Is Panera Bread clean?
Panera Bread is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Panera Bread?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥜allergen training missingAllergen Training As Required • FOUND SANITATION MANAGER WITH NO ALLERGEN TRAINING.MUST PROVIDE.
When was Panera Bread last inspected?
Panera Bread has 32 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 27, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 20, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 14, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 16, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 27, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 13, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 2, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 20, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 27, 2018 | Pass |
Panera Bread vs West Ridge
West Ridge runs 29% clean across 966 tracked restaurants — 279 clean, 73 mid, 612 cooked.
Against the 966 spots Cooked tracks in West Ridge, this one comes out cleaner than 73% 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 May 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.