Papa John's Pizza

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 2, 2025 →
• address703 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan 10039
• cuisinePizza
• phone2124917272

Is Papa John's Pizza clean?

Papa John's Pizza is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 2, 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 Papa John's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Swollen, leaking, rusted or otherwise damaged canned food to be returned to distributor not segregated from intact product and clearly labeled DO NOT USE

When was Papa John's Pizza last inspected?

Papa John's Pizza has 4 inspections on record going back to November 22, 2022, averaging 11 points.

Papa John's Pizza vs Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds

Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds runs 69% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 58 clean, 5 mid, 21 cooked.

Against the 93 spots Cooked tracks in Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds, this one comes out cleaner than 68% 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 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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