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Fat's Chicken & Waffles
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score2 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 20, 2026
- address2726 E Cherry St, Seattle 98122
Is Fat's Chicken & Waffles clean?
Fat's Chicken & Waffles is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Fat's Chicken & Waffles?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 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
When was Fat's Chicken & Waffles last inspected?
Fat's Chicken & Waffles has 8 inspections on record going back to January 22, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| November 12, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 12 pts |
| April 10, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| October 24, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 6 pts |
| April 5, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| August 9, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| December 8, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 20 pts |
| January 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
Fat's Chicken & Waffles vs Central Area
Central Area runs 93% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Central Area, this one comes out cleaner than 45% 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 May 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.