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Denny's Inc #7860
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 27, 2026
- address14821 1St Ave S, Burien 98168
Is Denny's Inc #7860 clean?
Denny's Inc #7860 is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 27, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Denny's Inc #7860?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Denny's Inc #7860 last inspected?
Denny's Inc #7860 has 8 inspections on record going back to May 27, 2021, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 27, 2026 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| June 16, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| August 19, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| January 9, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| December 28, 2023 | Rated Okay | 85 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Okay | 3 pts |
| August 9, 2022 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| May 27, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Denny's Inc #7860 vs Burien
Burien runs 88% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 225 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.