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Papa John's Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 5, 2025
- address2640 N Clark St, Chicago 60614
Is Papa John's Pizza clean?
Papa John's Pizza is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 5, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Papa John's Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-205.15 - OBSERVED LEAK AT BASE OF FAUCET OF 3 COMPARTMENT SINK, EVEN WHEN WATER IS NOT ACTIVELY TURNED ON. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO SERVICE LEAK AND MAINTAIN FAUCET IN GOOD REPAIR.
When was Papa John's Pizza last inspected?
Papa John's Pizza has 13 inspections on record going back to July 25, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 21, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 8, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 15, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 30, 2019 | Fail | |
| November 20, 2017 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2017 | Fail | |
| September 8, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 13, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 14, 2015 | Pass |
Papa John's Pizza vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 41% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 673 clean, 174 mid, 789 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 60% 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 March 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.