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Del Taco
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 18, 2026
- address34528 16Th Ave S, Federal Way 98003
Is Del Taco clean?
Del Taco is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 18, 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 Del Taco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Del Taco last inspected?
Del Taco has 11 inspections on record going back to March 23, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 18, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| April 7, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 22, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 15, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 14, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| April 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
| January 11, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 19, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 15, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 20, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 23, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Del Taco vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 371 clean, 22 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, 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 March 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.