Cafe Elite #21

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score14 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 7, 2026 →
• address1045 S 320Th St, Federal Way 98003

Is Cafe Elite #21 clean?

Cafe Elite #21 is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 7, 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 Cafe Elite #21?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️5000 - Posting of permit; mobile establishment name easily visible
• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained

When was Cafe Elite #21 last inspected?

Cafe Elite #21 has 7 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2021, averaging 7 points.

Cafe Elite #21 vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 93% clean across 487 tracked restaurants — 455 clean, 30 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 487 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 July 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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