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El Pollo Loco #5972
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 28, 2025
- address101 E Manchester Ave, Los Angeles 90003
Is El Pollo Loco #5972 clean?
El Pollo Loco #5972 is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 28, 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 #5972?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIEDFOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
When was El Pollo Loco #5972 last inspected?
El Pollo Loco #5972 has 4 inspections on record going back to August 24, 2023, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 28, 2025 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| November 19, 2024 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| June 18, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| August 24, 2023 | Grade A | 90 pts |
El Pollo Loco #5972 vs Vermont Vista
Vermont Vista runs 95% clean across 94 tracked restaurants — 89 clean, 2 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 94 spots Cooked tracks in Vermont Vista, this one comes out cleaner than 12% of them.
Other spots in Vermont Vista
How Los Angeles grades restaurants
Los Angeles County posts a letter placard in the window, and unlike New York the score runs the friendly way: higher is better. 90 to 100 points earns an A, 80 to 89 a B, and anything below that a C. The county inspects roughly every six months to a year depending on risk, and a failed inspection can close a kitchen until it is fixed. Because LA’s scores are final at the time of inspection — there is no pending window — a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.
Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.