Cooked?Simply Salad
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 6, 2024 →
- address1401 2Nd St, Santa Monica 90401
Is Simply Salad clean?
Simply Salad is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 6, 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 Simply Salad?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 6, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- 📦food stored wrong# 30. FOOD PROPERLY STORED; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
When was Simply Salad last inspected?
Simply Salad has 2 inspections on record going back to April 2, 2024, averaging 92 points.
August 6, 2024 A
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View full inspection →April 2, 2024 A
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View full inspection →Simply Salad vs City Of Santa Monica
City Of Santa Monica runs 95% clean across 628 tracked restaurants — 598 clean, 25 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 628 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Santa Monica, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 August 6, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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