• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 16, 2026 →
• address31717 Pacific Hwy S, Federal Way 98003

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Is Church's Chicken clean?

Church's Chicken is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 16, 2026. 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 Church's Chicken?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Church's Chicken last inspected?

Church's Chicken has 13 inspections on record going back to March 3, 2021, averaging 3 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Church's Chicken vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 93% clean across 500 tracked restaurants — 467 clean, 31 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 500 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 September 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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