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Picnic Digital Food Court
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 22, 2025
- address3517 N Spaulding Ave, Chicago 60618
- cuisineShared Kitchen
Is Picnic Digital Food Court clean?
Picnic Digital Food Court is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Picnic Digital Food Court?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED CLEAN LINENS STORED IN PLASTIC BACK DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR IN BOTH BULK DRY FOOD STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN CLEAN LINEN CONTAINERS AT LEAST 6" ABOVE THE FLOOR DURING STORAGE.Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • OBSERVED CLEAN LINENS STORED IN PLASTIC BACK DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR IN BOTH BULK DRY FOOD STORAGE AREAS. INSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN CLEAN LINEN CONTAINERS AT LEAST 6" ABOVE THE FLOOR DURING STORAGE.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE AT THE REAR AREA UTILITY SINK FAUCET IN POOR REPAIR, BUT FUNCTIONAL (MISSING DEFLECTOR COVER). INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE REAR AREA UTILITY SINK BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE AND MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING FIXTURES IN GOOD REPAIR.
- ⚠️Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • OBSERVED BUILD UP OF DRIED FOOD DEBRIS AND SOLIDIFIED GREASE ON THE GROUND OF THE OUTDOOR WASTE RECEPTACLE ENCLOSURE. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN OUTDOOR WASTE ENCLOSURES AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF DRIED FOOD DEBRIS, SOLIDIFIED GREASE, AND OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • OBSERVED BUILD UP OF DRIED FOOD DEBRIS AND SOLIDIFIED GREASE ON THE GROUND OF THE OUTDOOR WASTE RECEPTACLE ENCLOSURE. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN OUTDOOR WASTE ENCLOSURES AT ADEQUATE FREQUENCY TO PREVENT BUILD UP OF DRIED FOOD DEBRIS, SOLIDIFIED GREASE, AND OTHER SOILS AND MAINTAIN.
When was Picnic Digital Food Court last inspected?
Picnic Digital Food Court has 14 inspections on record going back to December 11, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 26, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 3, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 29, 2021 | Pass | |
| December 24, 2020 | Pass | |
| December 16, 2020 | Fail |
Picnic Digital Food Court vs Avondale
Avondale runs 64% clean across 679 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 111 mid, 133 cooked.
Against the 679 spots Cooked tracks in Avondale, this one comes out cleaner than 39% 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 December 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.