Cafe On The Ave

• official resultOkay
• ratingRated Okay
• score93 pts
• inspection typeRoutine Inspection/Field Review
• failed findings10
• critical findings5

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Failed findings

• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  Official wording: 0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
  code 0200REDstatus: RED
• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  Official wording: 1600 - Proper cooling procedure
  code 1600REDstatus: RED
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  Official wording: 1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
  code 1900REDstatus: RED
• 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical
  Official wording: 2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
  code 2120REDstatus: RED
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  Official wording: 2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
  code 2500REDstatus: RED
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  Official wording: 3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
  code 3300
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  Official wording: 4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
  code 4200
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  Official wording: 4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
  code 4300
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
  code 4400
• 🍽️dishwashing setup off
  Official wording: 4500 - Sewage, wastewater properly disposed
  code 4500

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Okay on May 9, 2025: Score changed by +63 points. 7 findings appeared for the first time. 3 findings recurred. 3 previous findings did not recur.

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About this record

This record comes from Public Health — Seattle & King County. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: King County Open Data.