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Potbelly Sandwich Works
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 2, 2025
- address409 W Washington St, Chicago 60606
Is Potbelly Sandwich Works clean?
Potbelly Sandwich Works is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 2, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Potbelly Sandwich Works?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • FOUND WALL IN POOR REPAIR BY HOT SOUP PREPARATION AREAS.(CHIPPING PAINT).MUST REPAIR.
When was Potbelly Sandwich Works last inspected?
Potbelly Sandwich Works has 20 inspections on record going back to September 3, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 20, 2021 | — | |
| March 16, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 25, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 18, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 23, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 1, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 16, 2016 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2016 | Pass |
Potbelly Sandwich Works vs Loop
Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 59% 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 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.