Donut King

• gradeGrade C
• inspection score75 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 7, 2025 →
• address2214 El Segundo Blvd, Gardena 90249

Is Donut King clean?

Donut King is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 7, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Donut King?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️gear not up to code
  # 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
• ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  # 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
• ⚠️# 41. GARBAGE AND REFUSE PROPERLY DISPOSED; FACILITIES MAINTAINED
• ❓food from an unapproved source
  # 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
• ⚠️# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
• ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
• 📦food stored wrong
  # 30. FOOD PROPERLY STORED; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
• ⚠️# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATEDcritical
• 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical
  # 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  # 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  # 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
• ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE

When was Donut King last inspected?

Donut King has 2 inspections on record going back to August 20, 2024, averaging 86 points.

Donut King vs Hawthorne

Hawthorne runs 95% clean across 129 tracked restaurants — 122 clean, 4 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 129 spots Cooked tracks in Hawthorne, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

Other spots in Hawthorne

• B Big Bates Fish Market
  mid · August 21, 2025
• A King Donuts
  clean · July 2, 2025
• A Al's Hot Chicken
  clean · February 26, 2025
• B Loaded Cafe
  mid · September 24, 2025
• A Fabulous Charburgers No 1 Inc
  clean · July 22, 2024
• A Space Exploration Tech Corp-Cafeteria
  clean · May 14, 2025

See every restaurant inspection in Hawthorne →

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.

Read the Los Angeles ratings guide →

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 August 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.