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Circle Food Store
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 14, 2025
- address2000 Benson Rd S, Suite140, Renton 98055
Is Circle Food Store clean?
Circle Food Store is currently clean from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 14, 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 Circle Food Store?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Circle Food Store last inspected?
Circle Food Store has 5 inspections on record going back to March 2, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 14, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 8 pts |
| January 22, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 25 pts |
| March 27, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| November 8, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| March 2, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Circle Food Store vs Renton
Renton runs 91% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 42 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 March 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.