• ratingRated Good
• inspection score5 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 28, 2026 →
• address504 Auburn Way N, Auburn 98002

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Is Starting Gate Restaurant clean?

Starting Gate Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 28, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Starting Gate Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical

When was Starting Gate Restaurant last inspected?

Starting Gate Restaurant has 8 inspections on record going back to September 29, 2021, averaging 8 points.

Starting Gate Restaurant vs Auburn

Auburn runs 95% clean across 314 tracked restaurants — 298 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 314 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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