• ratingRated Excellent
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 20, 2025 →
• address3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island 98040

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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 exemptcritical
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical

When was Purple Beet Catering last inspected?

Purple Beet Catering has 4 inspections on record going back to November 7, 2022, averaging 4 points.

Purple Beet Catering vs Mercer Island

Mercer Island runs 94% clean across 129 tracked restaurants — 121 clean, 7 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 129 spots Cooked tracks in Mercer Island, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 May 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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