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Frugals
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score2 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 25, 2025
- address1817 Howard Rd, Auburn 98002
Is Frugals clean?
Frugals is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Frugals?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2025, 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 Frugals last inspected?
Frugals has 9 inspections on record going back to October 11, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 2 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 1, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 13 pts |
| September 5, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 21, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 45 pts |
| November 17, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 27, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 11, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Frugals vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 September 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.