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Southern Diner Llc
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJuly 11, 2025
- address15304 1St Ave S, Burien 98148
Is Southern Diner Llc clean?
Southern Diner Llc is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 11, 2025. 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 Southern Diner Llc?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Southern Diner Llc last inspected?
Southern Diner Llc has 4 inspections on record going back to December 8, 2023, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 11, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| December 19, 2024 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
| April 4, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| December 8, 2023 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
Southern Diner Llc vs Burien
Burien runs 88% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 225 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 July 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.