Circle Food Store

• ratingGrade pending
• inspection score8 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 14, 2025 →
• address2000 Benson Rd S, Suite140, Renton 98055

Is Circle Food Store clean?

Seattle currently lists Circle Food Store as grade pending, following an inspection on March 14, 2025 that scored 8 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.

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 stored
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - 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.

Circle Food Store vs Renton

Renton runs 91% clean across 478 tracked restaurants — 434 clean, 41 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 478 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.

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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 March 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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