Cooked?
Why? Grocery
- ratingGrade pending
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2026
- address11449 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98178
Is Why? Grocery clean?
Seattle currently lists Why? Grocery as grade pending, following an inspection on April 29, 2026 that scored 0 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.
What did inspectors find at Why? Grocery?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Why? Grocery last inspected?
Why? Grocery has 6 inspections on record going back to March 25, 2021, averaging 1 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| June 5, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| March 12, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 3 pts |
| February 22, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| August 16, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| March 25, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Why? Grocery vs Renton
Renton runs 92% clean across 475 tracked restaurants — 365 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 475 spots Cooked tracks in Renton, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 April 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.