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Safeway - China Express/ Deli
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 14, 2026
- address9262 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Safeway - China Express/ Deli clean?
Safeway - China Express/ Deli is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Safeway - China Express/ Deli?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 14, 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
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
When was Safeway - China Express/ Deli last inspected?
Safeway - China Express/ Deli has 11 inspections on record going back to July 30, 2021, averaging 8 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 14, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| November 26, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| May 15, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 12, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 6, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| February 22, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 50 pts |
| August 15, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 13, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 2, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| February 18, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 30, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
Safeway - China Express/ Deli vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 32% of them.
Other spots in Rainier Valley
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 April 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.