Kennedy Chicken & Grill

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 6, 2026 →
• address1815 Grand Concourse, Bronx 10453
• cuisineChicken
• phone7182246030

Is Kennedy Chicken & Grill clean?

Kennedy Chicken & Grill is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 6, 2026. 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 Kennedy Chicken & Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-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.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Thawing procedure improper.
• 🌡️food-temperature slipcritical
  Commercially processed pre-cooked TCS in hermetically sealed containers and precooked TCS in intact packages from non-retail food processing establishments not heated to 140 °F within 2 hours of removal from container or package.

When was Kennedy Chicken & Grill last inspected?

Kennedy Chicken & Grill has 5 inspections on record going back to December 4, 2023, averaging 20 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Kennedy Chicken & Grill vs Mount Hope

Mount Hope runs 83% clean across 81 tracked restaurants — 58 clean, 7 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 81 spots Cooked tracks in Mount Hope, this one comes out cleaner than 34% 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.

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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: 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 October 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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