Choice Deli & Grocery

• official resultOkay
• ratingRated Okay
• score70 pts
• inspection typeRoutine Inspection/Field Review
• failed findings5
• critical findings4

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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 from an unapproved sourcecritical
  Official wording: 0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
  code 0600REDstatus: RED
• ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical
  code 1710REDstatus: 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
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Official wording: 3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
  code 3400

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Okay on March 19, 2024: Score changed by +35 points. 3 findings appeared for the first time. 2 findings recurred. 4 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.