Santa Fe Mexican Grill & Cantina

• official resultExcellent
• ratingRated Excellent
• score55 pts
• inspection typeRoutine Inspection/Field Review
• failed findings4
• critical findings4

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Failed findings

• 📋food worker cards missingcritical
  Official wording: 0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
  code 0200REDstatus: RED
• 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical
  Official wording: 0500 - Proper barriers used to prevent bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods
  code 0500REDstatus: RED
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  Official wording: 0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
  code 0600REDstatus: RED
• ⚠️2000 - Proper reheating procedures for hot holdingcritical
  code 2000REDstatus: RED

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Excellent on July 1, 2021: Score changed by +55 points. 4 findings appeared for the first time.

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About this record

This record comes from Public Health — Seattle & King County. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: King County Open Data.