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Safeway Store #3540 Deli
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2026
- address21401 Pacific Hwy S, Des Moines 98198
Is Safeway Store #3540 Deli clean?
Safeway Store #3540 Deli is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on January 28, 2026. 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 Safeway Store #3540 Deli?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control2900 - Adequate equipment for temperature control
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Safeway Store #3540 Deli last inspected?
Safeway Store #3540 Deli has 8 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2021, averaging 16 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 28, 2026 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| March 28, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| May 28, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| December 5, 2023 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| January 5, 2023 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| May 20, 2022 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| May 17, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Safeway Store #3540 Deli vs Des Moines
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 January 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.