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La Chapanita Buffete & Catering
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 29, 2026
- address623 Central Ave S, Kent 98032
Is La Chapanita Buffete & Catering clean?
La Chapanita Buffete & Catering is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 29, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at La Chapanita Buffete & Catering?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holding
When was La Chapanita Buffete & Catering last inspected?
La Chapanita Buffete & Catering has 10 inspections on record going back to April 27, 2021, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 29, 2026 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| December 16, 2025 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| April 22, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| April 10, 2025 | Rated Okay | 37 pts |
| November 21, 2024 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| June 26, 2024 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| July 17, 2023 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
| January 24, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| May 12, 2022 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| April 27, 2021 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
La Chapanita Buffete & Catering vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 June 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.