Ar Mercer Mini Mart

• inspection score18 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 6, 2026
• address405 W Mercer St, Seattle 98119

Is Ar Mercer Mini Mart clean?

Ar Mercer Mini Mart is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 6, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Ar Mercer Mini Mart?

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

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Ar Mercer Mini Mart last inspected?

Ar Mercer Mini Mart has 3 inspections on record going back to April 26, 2024, averaging 6 points.

Ar Mercer Mini Mart vs Interbay

Interbay runs 91% clean across 92 tracked restaurants — 84 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.

Against the 92 spots Cooked tracks in Interbay, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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.

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