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Szechuan First
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score42 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2025
- address18124 E Valley Hwy, Kent 98032
Is Szechuan First clean?
Szechuan First is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 12, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Szechuan First?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
- ⚠️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
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
- ⚠️1500 - Proper preparation of raw shell eggscritical1500 - Proper preparation of raw shell eggs
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Szechuan First last inspected?
Szechuan First has 10 inspections on record going back to April 19, 2021, averaging 30 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 12, 2025 | Rated Okay | 42 pts |
| November 21, 2024 | Rated Okay | 49 pts |
| April 25, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| April 24, 2024 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| April 10, 2024 | Rated Okay | 52 pts |
| September 26, 2023 | Rated Okay | 37 pts |
| February 16, 2023 | Rated Okay | 32 pts |
| May 11, 2022 | Rated Okay | 8 pts |
| April 27, 2022 | Rated Okay | 56 pts |
| April 19, 2021 | Rated Okay | 21 pts |
Szechuan First vs Renton
Renton runs 91% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 42 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
Other spots in Renton
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 February 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.