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Popeyes
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score11 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 23, 2025
- address8221 Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn 11236
- cuisineChicken
- phone7185134911
Is Popeyes clean?
Popeyes is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 23, 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 Popeyes?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 23, 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.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
When was Popeyes last inspected?
Popeyes has 4 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2022, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2025 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| January 3, 2024 | Grade A | 9 pts |
| November 22, 2022 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| July 20, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Popeyes vs Canarsie
Canarsie runs 84% clean across 97 tracked restaurants — 77 clean, 5 mid, 10 cooked.
Against the 97 spots Cooked tracks in Canarsie, this one comes out cleaner than 50% 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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.