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The Original Karens Kitchen
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 3, 2025
- address39438 Trade Center Dr # E, Palmdale 93551
Is The Original Karens Kitchen clean?
The Original Karens Kitchen is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on February 3, 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 The Original Karens Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
When was The Original Karens Kitchen last inspected?
The Original Karens Kitchen has 2 inspections on record going back to December 20, 2023, averaging 94 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 3, 2025 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| December 20, 2023 | Grade A | 94 pts |
The Original Karens Kitchen vs Desert View Highlands
Desert View Highlands runs 95% clean across 151 tracked restaurants — 143 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 151 spots Cooked tracks in Desert View Highlands, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.