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Valley Food Mart
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 5, 2025
- address22240 Se 272Nd St, Maple Valley 98038
Is Valley Food Mart clean?
Valley Food Mart is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 5, 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 Valley Food Mart?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️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 worker cards missingcritical0200 - Food Worker Cards current for all food workers; new food workers trained
When was Valley Food Mart last inspected?
Valley Food Mart has 8 inspections on record going back to January 11, 2021, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 5, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| December 16, 2024 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| March 19, 2024 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| September 26, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| February 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 22, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| May 20, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| January 11, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Valley Food Mart vs Maple Valley
Maple Valley runs 85% clean across 93 tracked restaurants — 79 clean, 14 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 93 spots Cooked tracks in Maple Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 August 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.