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Burger Express, The
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 20, 2026
- address32805 Pacific Hwy S, Federal Way 98003
Is Burger Express, The clean?
Burger Express, The is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 20, 2026. 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 Burger Express, The?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Burger Express, The last inspected?
Burger Express, The has 10 inspections on record going back to October 5, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 20, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 17, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| August 14, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 4, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 27, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| July 6, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| February 16, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| October 5, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
Burger Express, The vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 16% of them.
Other spots in Federal Way
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 April 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.