Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score18 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
• address440 16Th Ave Ne, Auburn 98002

Is Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc clean?

Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 17, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc last inspected?

Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc has 8 inspections on record going back to October 14, 2021, averaging 13 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Hibachi Buffet Jiang Inc vs Auburn

Auburn runs 95% clean across 318 tracked restaurants — 303 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 318 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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