A1 Hawaiian Barbecue

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score30 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedMarch 6, 2026 →
• address12932 Se Kent Kangley Rd, Kent 98030

Is A1 Hawaiian Barbecue clean?

A1 Hawaiian Barbecue is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 6, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at A1 Hawaiian Barbecue?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was A1 Hawaiian Barbecue last inspected?

A1 Hawaiian Barbecue has 7 inspections on record going back to April 19, 2022, averaging 33 points.

A1 Hawaiian Barbecue vs Covington

Covington runs 85% clean across 177 tracked restaurants — 150 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 177 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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How Seattle grades restaurants

Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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