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Ding Tea
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score92 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 7, 2024
- address4788 S Peck Rd, El Monte 91732
Is Ding Tea clean?
Ding Tea is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on February 7, 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 Ding Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 7, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🧊food not cooled down right# 08. TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDS
- ⚠️# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
When was Ding Tea last inspected?
Ding Tea has 2 inspections on record going back to January 17, 2024, averaging 81 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 7, 2024 | Grade A | 92 pts |
| January 17, 2024 | Grade C | 70 pts |
Ding Tea vs Arcadia
Arcadia runs 94% clean across 115 tracked restaurants — 108 clean, 7 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 115 spots Cooked tracks in Arcadia, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 February 7, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.