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Poverty Bay Cafe
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 8, 2026
- address1108 S 322Nd Pl, #A, Federal Way 98003
Is Poverty Bay Cafe clean?
Poverty Bay Cafe is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Poverty Bay Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Poverty Bay Cafe last inspected?
Poverty Bay Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2023, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 8, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 23, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 2, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| February 5, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 20, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| October 18, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| June 8, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
Poverty Bay Cafe vs Federal Way
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 453 clean, 29 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 June 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.