Marlenes Market & Deli

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 25, 2026 →
• address2565 S Gateway Ctr, Federal Way 98003

Is Marlenes Market & Deli clean?

Marlenes Market & Deli is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 25, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Marlenes Market & Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 25, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized

When was Marlenes Market & Deli last inspected?

Marlenes Market & Deli has 5 inspections on record going back to February 26, 2025, averaging 1 points.

Marlenes Market & Deli vs Federal Way

Federal Way runs 93% clean across 487 tracked restaurants — 455 clean, 30 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 487 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 August 25, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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