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Superior Grocers #309
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 2, 2025
- address1141 W Carson St, Torrance 90502
Is Superior Grocers #309 clean?
Superior Grocers #309 is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 2, 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 Superior Grocers #309?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScriticalPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
When was Superior Grocers #309 last inspected?
Superior Grocers #309 has 3 inspections on record going back to March 12, 2024, averaging 88 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 2, 2025 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| September 8, 2025 | Grade B | 83 pts |
| March 12, 2024 | Grade A | 90 pts |
Superior Grocers #309 vs West Carson
West Carson runs 93% clean across 397 tracked restaurants — 368 clean, 23 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 397 spots Cooked tracks in West Carson, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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 October 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.