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Zest Fast Food
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score16 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 24, 2025
- address7111 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 98118
Is Zest Fast Food clean?
Zest Fast Food is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 24, 2025. 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 Zest Fast Food?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- 📄consumer advisory missingcritical2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
When was Zest Fast Food last inspected?
Zest Fast Food has 8 inspections on record going back to August 12, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2025 | Rated Good | 16 pts |
| July 2, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| February 6, 2024 | Rated Good | 38 pts |
| September 12, 2023 | Rated Good | 2 pts |
| April 21, 2023 | Rated Good | 8 pts |
| November 15, 2022 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| February 24, 2022 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| August 12, 2021 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
Zest Fast Food vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.