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M L King Circle K
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 4, 2025
- address6056 M L King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118
Is M L King Circle K clean?
M L King Circle K is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 4, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at M L King Circle K?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was M L King Circle K last inspected?
M L King Circle K has 9 inspections on record going back to June 21, 2021, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 4, 2025 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| February 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| October 28, 2024 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 31, 2024 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| August 7, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| January 13, 2023 | Rated Good | 23 pts |
| June 10, 2022 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 2, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| June 21, 2021 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
M L King Circle K vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 34% of them.
Other spots in Rainier Valley
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 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.