• gradeGrade A
• inspection score8 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 20, 2025 →
• address9460 W Sahara, Las Vegas 89117

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Is El Pollo Loco clean?

El Pollo Loco is currently Grade A from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), from an inspection on August 20, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Pollo Loco?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Physical facility in sound condition and maintained.
• ⚠️Nonfood contact surfaces and equipment properly constructed, installed, maintained, and clean.
• ⚠️Food contact surfaces of equipment properly cleaned and sanitized. Sanitizer solution provided and maintained as required.
• ⚠️Non-TCS food labeled and within shelf-life. Food stored off the floor. Proper retail storage of chemicals.
• ⚠️Small wares approved, properly designed, in good repair.
• ⚠️TCS food at proper temperatures.critical

When was El Pollo Loco last inspected?

El Pollo Loco has 8 inspections on record going back to March 24, 2021, averaging 3 points.

El Pollo Loco vs Las Vegas

Las Vegas runs 99% clean across 12,102 tracked restaurants — 11,336 clean, 38 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 12,102 spots Cooked tracks in Las Vegas, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

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How Las Vegas grades restaurants

The Southern Nevada Health District grades on demerits, and here more is worse: roughly 0–10 demerits earns an A, 11–20 a B, and 21 or more a C. Serious problems can skip the ladder entirely — an imminent health hazard gets the permit suspended and the kitchen shut on the spot, which shows up as a closure rather than a letter. SNHD covers all of Clark County, so Henderson, North Las Vegas and the unincorporated Strip all run the same scheme. Cooked reads A as clean, B as mid, C or a closure as cooked.

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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: Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) via SNHD Restaurant Inspections. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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