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Dave's Hot Chicken
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2026
- address1200 E Pike St, 101, Seattle 98122
Is Dave's Hot Chicken clean?
Dave's Hot Chicken is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 2, 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 Dave's Hot Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
When was Dave's Hot Chicken last inspected?
Dave's Hot Chicken has 6 inspections on record going back to December 1, 2023, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 2, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| November 6, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 24 pts |
| November 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| April 12, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 1, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Dave's Hot Chicken vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,561 clean, 139 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 July 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.