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Popeyes Chicken
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 7, 2025
- address1251 S Halsted St, Chicago 60607
Is Popeyes Chicken clean?
Popeyes Chicken is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Popeyes Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES STORED ON FLOOR IN HALLWAY NEAR REAR EXIT DOOR. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT AND ELEVATE ALL SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES OFF FLOOR.Single-Use/Single-Service Articles: Properly Stored & Used • OBSERVED SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES STORED ON FLOOR IN HALLWAY NEAR REAR EXIT DOOR. INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO INVERT AND ELEVATE ALL SINGLE SERVICE ARTICLES OFF FLOOR.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED SUGAR SPILLAGE IN CABINETS UNDER SODA DISPENSING AREA. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Popeyes Chicken last inspected?
Popeyes Chicken has 26 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 29, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| July 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 29, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 2, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 25, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 13, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 7, 2019 | Pass |
Popeyes Chicken vs Near West Side
Near West Side runs 72% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,463 clean, 406 mid, 151 cooked.
Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 April 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.