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Chef Ken's Catering
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 13, 2025
- address6501 38Th Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Chef Ken's Catering clean?
Chef Ken's Catering is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 13, 2025. 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 Chef Ken's Catering?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Chef Ken's Catering last inspected?
Chef Ken's Catering has 8 inspections on record going back to July 28, 2021, averaging 2 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 24, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 18, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 16, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 29, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 28, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Chef Ken's Catering vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 June 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.