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Papa John's Pizza
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 20, 2026
- address26906 Maple Vly/Black Diamond Rd, Maple Valley 98038
Is Papa John's Pizza clean?
Papa John's Pizza is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Papa John's Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
When was Papa John's Pizza last inspected?
Papa John's Pizza has 8 inspections on record going back to February 5, 2021, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| April 23, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| March 27, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 3, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 10, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 25 pts |
| April 4, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 5, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Papa John's Pizza vs Maple Valley
Maple Valley runs 85% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 79 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 93 spots Cooked tracks in Maple Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 May 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.