Zest Fast Food

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score42 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 19, 2026 →
• 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 October 19, 2026. 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 October 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• 🧼hand hygiene slippingcritical
  0400 - Hands washed as required

When was Zest Fast Food last inspected?

Zest Fast Food has 9 inspections on record going back to August 12, 2021, averaging 12 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Zest Fast Food vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 80% clean across 244 tracked restaurants — 195 clean, 45 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 244 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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