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Rainbow Cafe
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 7, 2025
- address112 E Main St, Auburn 98002
Is Rainbow Cafe clean?
Rainbow Cafe is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rainbow Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
When was Rainbow Cafe last inspected?
Rainbow Cafe has 8 inspections on record going back to June 5, 2021, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 7, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 30, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| December 6, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 25, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| June 2, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| December 5, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| May 31, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| June 5, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Rainbow Cafe vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 November 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.