Popeye's

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedDecember 18, 2025 →
• address7430 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago 60649

Is Popeye's clean?

Popeye's is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 18, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Popeye's?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required
• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used

When was Popeye's last inspected?

Popeye's has 17 inspections on record going back to July 15, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Popeye's vs Avalon Park

Avalon Park runs 77% clean across 156 tracked restaurants — 118 clean, 22 mid, 13 cooked.

Against the 156 spots Cooked tracks in Avalon Park, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated December 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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