Bys Drive In

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score38 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedMarch 10, 2026 →
• address2901 4Th Ave S, Seattle 98134

Is Bys Drive In clean?

Bys Drive In is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 10, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Bys Drive In?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
• ⚠️3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical

When was Bys Drive In last inspected?

Bys Drive In has 7 inspections on record going back to April 1, 2022, averaging 12 points.

Bys Drive In vs Greater Duwamish

Greater Duwamish runs 88% clean across 147 tracked restaurants — 130 clean, 15 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 147 spots Cooked tracks in Greater Duwamish, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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