Seattle currently lists Safeway Store #1186 Grocery as grade pending, following an inspection on January 27, 2026 that scored 17 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Safeway Store #1186 Grocery has 6 inspections on record going back to June 9, 2021, averaging 4 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 27, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 17 pts |
| February 4, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| January 11, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| January 13, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| May 23, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| June 9, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Federal Way runs 94% clean across 484 tracked restaurants — 371 clean, 22 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 484 spots Cooked tracks in Federal Way, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.
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 January 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.