Papa John's Pizza is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health β Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 14, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result β no violations of any severity were recorded.
Papa John's Pizza has 9 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2021, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 14, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 28, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 25, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 14, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| February 23, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| July 26, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 24, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 29, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 22, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants β 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 33% of them.
Public Health β Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot β it averages the establishmentβs 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 β Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.