Potbelly Sandwich Shop

• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 14, 2026 →
• address1208 Madison St, Seattle 98104

Is Potbelly Sandwich Shop clean?

Potbelly Sandwich Shop is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 14, 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 Potbelly Sandwich Shop?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Potbelly Sandwich Shop last inspected?

Potbelly Sandwich Shop has 11 inspections on record going back to August 30, 2021, averaging 2 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Potbelly Sandwich Shop vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,783 tracked restaurants — 1,615 clean, 160 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,783 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 September 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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