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Happy Express
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 1, 2026
- address530 W Main St, Auburn 98001
Is Happy Express clean?
Happy Express is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 1, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Happy Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Happy Express last inspected?
Happy Express has 6 inspections on record going back to March 13, 2023, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| April 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| December 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 12, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 13, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Happy Express 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 22% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.