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Lunch On The Plate
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2026
- address10256 16Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98146
Is Lunch On The Plate clean?
Lunch On The Plate is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 12, 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 Lunch On The Plate?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Lunch On The Plate last inspected?
Lunch On The Plate has 6 inspections on record going back to January 3, 2023, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 12, 2026 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| March 26, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 25, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 22, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 7, 2024 | Rated Good | 50 pts |
| January 3, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Lunch On The Plate vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 35% 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 February 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.