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Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 19, 2025
- address266 Willis Avenue, Bronx 10454
- cuisineChicken
- phone7185852440
Is Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles clean?
Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 19, 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 Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
When was Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles last inspected?
Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles has 4 inspections on record going back to July 12, 2022, averaging 23 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| January 22, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| September 9, 2022 | Grade A | 9 pts |
| July 12, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 57 pts |
Five Star Kennedy Pizza Chicken & Waffles vs Mott Haven-Port Morris
Mott Haven-Port Morris runs 70% clean across 136 tracked restaurants — 87 clean, 9 mid, 28 cooked.
Against the 136 spots Cooked tracks in Mott Haven-Port Morris, this one comes out cleaner than 35% of them.
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How New York grades restaurants
New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0–13 points earns an A, 14–27 a B, and 28 or more a C. Every restaurant is inspected at least once a year, and the letter has to be posted in the window. A restaurant that scores 14 or more on the first inspection of a cycle does not get a letter right away — it stays “Grade Pending” until a re-inspection settles it, which is why some spots here show an hourglass instead of a letter. Cooked only ever shows a letter the city actually posted; we never infer one from a score.
Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via NYC Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.