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Purple Beet Catering
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 20, 2025
- address3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island 98040
Is Purple Beet Catering clean?
Purple Beet Catering is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 20, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Purple Beet Catering?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
When was Purple Beet Catering last inspected?
Purple Beet Catering has 4 inspections on record going back to November 7, 2022, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 15 pts |
| February 9, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| May 18, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| November 7, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Purple Beet Catering vs Mercer Island
Mercer Island runs 94% clean across 127 tracked restaurants — 119 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 127 spots Cooked tracks in Mercer Island, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.