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Potbelly
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 29, 2025
- address2739 N Elston Ave, Chicago 60647
Is Potbelly clean?
Potbelly is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 29, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Potbelly?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED THE INTERIOR OF THE WALK IN COOLERS IN NEED OF CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN.
When was Potbelly last inspected?
Potbelly has 19 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 12, 2020 | Pass | |
| June 11, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 31, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 30, 2018 | Pass | |
| March 23, 2018 | Fail | |
| March 20, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2016 | Pass |
Potbelly vs Logan Square
Logan Square runs 42% clean across 1,321 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 142 mid, 612 cooked.
Against the 1,321 spots Cooked tracks in Logan Square, 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 October 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.