Papa John's Pizza

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 28, 2014
• address2020 N California, Chicago 60647

Is Papa John's Pizza clean?

Papa John's Pizza is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 28, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Papa John's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 28, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Outside Garbage Waste Grease And Storage Area; Clean, Rodent Proof, All Containers Covered • OBSERVED GARBAGE OUTSIDE OF DUMPSTERS ON GROUND, SCATTERED ABOUT. OBSERVED DUMPSTERS WITH LIDS NOT FULLY CLOSED DUE TO OVERFILLED CANS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN AREAS AROUND DUMPSTERS AND INCREASE GARBAGE PICKUP OR NUMBER OF DUMPSTERS IN ORDER TO KEEP GARBAGE AREA CLEAN. SERIOUS CITATION ISSUED 7-38-020.
  Outside Garbage Waste Grease And Storage Area; Clean, Rodent Proof, All Containers Covered • OBSERVED GARBAGE OUTSIDE OF DUMPSTERS ON GROUND, SCATTERED ABOUT. OBSERVED DUMPSTERS WITH LIDS NOT FULLY CLOSED DUE TO OVERFILLED CANS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN AREAS AROUND DUMPSTERS AND INCREASE GARBAGE PICKUP OR NUMBER OF DUMPSTERS IN ORDER TO KEEP GARBAGE AREA CLEAN. SERIOUS CITATION ISSUED 7-38-020.
• ⚠️Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND UNUSED TRAYS STORED ON FLOOR NEAR MOP CLOSET. INSTRUCTED TO STORE OFF FLOOR AT LEAST SIX INCHES AND TO MAINTAIN. FOUND DIRT BUILDUP ON FLOOR NEAR MOP CLOSET. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
  Floors: Constructed Per Code, Cleaned, Good Repair, Coving Installed, Dust-Less Cleaning Methods Used • FOUND UNUSED TRAYS STORED ON FLOOR NEAR MOP CLOSET. INSTRUCTED TO STORE OFF FLOOR AT LEAST SIX INCHES AND TO MAINTAIN. FOUND DIRT BUILDUP ON FLOOR NEAR MOP CLOSET. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.

When was Papa John's Pizza last inspected?

Papa John's Pizza has 7 inspections on record going back to December 14, 2010.

Papa John's Pizza vs Logan Square

Logan Square runs 66% clean across 1,321 tracked restaurants — 870 clean, 253 mid, 186 cooked.

Against the 1,321 spots Cooked tracks in Logan Square, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 July 28, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.