Cooked?Don Cuper Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 23, 2025 →
- address14540 Vanowen St, Van Nuys 91405
Is Don Cuper Restaurant clean?
Don Cuper Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on June 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 Don Cuper Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals inside# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- ⚠️# 38. THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
When was Don Cuper Restaurant last inspected?
Don Cuper Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to September 21, 2023, averaging 92 points.
June 23, 2025 A
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View full inspection →May 16, 2024 A
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View full inspection →September 21, 2023 A
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View full inspection →Don Cuper Restaurant vs Van Nuys
Van Nuys runs 98% clean across 286 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 5 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 286 spots Cooked tracks in Van Nuys, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
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 June 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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