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Taco Time
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score5 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 21, 2025
- address17211 Se 272Nd St, Kent 98042
Is Taco Time clean?
Taco Time is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 21, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taco Time?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
When was Taco Time last inspected?
Taco Time has 7 inspections on record going back to March 15, 2021, averaging 3 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 21, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| November 6, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| January 8, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| April 18, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| June 14, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| November 16, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 15, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
Taco Time vs Covington
Covington runs 85% clean across 175 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 175 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 February 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.