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Sharks Fast Food
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 7, 2026
- address338 S California Ave, Chicago 60612
Is Sharks Fast Food clean?
Sharks Fast Food is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sharks Fast Food?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED WHITE, PLASTIC BOWLS/CONTAINERS STORED INSIDE BULK DRY INGREDIENT CONTAINERS IN THE REAR. INSTRUCTED TO USE UTENSILS WITH HANDLES TO TRANSFER DRY INGREDIENTS.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED WHITE, PLASTIC BOWLS/CONTAINERS STORED INSIDE BULK DRY INGREDIENT CONTAINERS IN THE REAR. INSTRUCTED TO USE UTENSILS WITH HANDLES TO TRANSFER DRY INGREDIENTS.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED THE FLOOR UNDER THE THREE DOOR COOLER IN THE REAR WITH SLIGHT DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
When was Sharks Fast Food last inspected?
Sharks Fast Food has 12 inspections on record going back to December 17, 2018.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 7, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 11, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 9, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 2, 2021 | Fail | |
| April 13, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 19, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 4, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| December 17, 2018 | — |
Sharks Fast Food vs East Garfield Park
East Garfield Park runs 66% clean across 510 tracked restaurants — 336 clean, 87 mid, 85 cooked.
Against the 510 spots Cooked tracks in East Garfield Park, this one comes out cleaner than 35% 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 January 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.