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El Pollo Loco
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 8, 2024
- address14308 Ocean Gate Ave, Hawthorne 90250
Is El Pollo Loco clean?
El Pollo Loco is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 8, 2024. 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 8, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical# 05. HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; GLOVES USED PROPERLY
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
When was El Pollo Loco last inspected?
El Pollo Loco has 1 inspection on record going back to August 8, 2024, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 8, 2024 | Grade A | 91 pts |
El Pollo Loco vs Wiseburn
Wiseburn runs 99% clean across 115 tracked restaurants — 114 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 115 spots Cooked tracks in Wiseburn, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.
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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 August 8, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.