Wow Pizza Cafe

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 9, 2025
• address4818 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago 60640

Is Wow Pizza Cafe clean?

Wow Pizza Cafe is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Wow Pizza Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON SITE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AN EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY THAT INCLUDES A SIGNED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM EACH EMPLOYEE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION, 7-38-010.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • MUST REPAIR TORN GASKET ON THE INSIDE OF PIZZA COOLER AND MAINTAIN.

When was Wow Pizza Cafe last inspected?

Wow Pizza Cafe has 1 inspection on record going back to September 9, 2025.

Wow Pizza Cafe vs Uptown

Uptown runs 62% clean across 725 tracked restaurants — 446 clean, 137 mid, 137 cooked.

Against the 725 spots Cooked tracks in Uptown, this one comes out cleaner than 56% 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 September 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.