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Popeye's Chicken
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 10, 2025
- address5248 W Belmont Ave, Chicago 60641
Is Popeye's Chicken clean?
Popeye's Chicken is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 10, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Popeye's Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • OBSERVED BROKEN, UNUSED WARMER IN REAR PREP AREA NEAR EXPOSED HANDWASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN IN GOOD CONDITION OR REMOVE FROM PREMISES.
When was Popeye's Chicken last inspected?
Popeye's Chicken has 37 inspections on record going back to November 3, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 1, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 30, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 3, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 7, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| January 14, 2020 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 26, 2019 | Fail |
Popeye's Chicken vs Belmont Cragin
Belmont Cragin runs 60% clean across 787 tracked restaurants — 470 clean, 175 mid, 137 cooked.
Against the 787 spots Cooked tracks in Belmont Cragin, this one comes out cleaner than 43% of them.
Other spots in Belmont Cragin
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 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.