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Happy Buns Kc973
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 18, 2026
- address12859 Ne 85Th St S, Kirkland 98033
Is Happy Buns Kc973 clean?
Happy Buns Kc973 is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 18, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Happy Buns Kc973?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
When was Happy Buns Kc973 last inspected?
Happy Buns Kc973 has 5 inspections on record going back to March 13, 2024, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 18, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| June 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| January 9, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 2, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Happy Buns Kc973 vs Kirkland
Kirkland runs 96% clean across 337 tracked restaurants — 322 clean, 15 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 337 spots Cooked tracks in Kirkland, this one comes out cleaner than 18% 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 April 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.