Three main components used to determined restaurant's rating category.
Trend of food safety practices over time. Good food safety needs to be practiced every day. The food safety rating window signs will reflect how well a restaurant has performed over time, not just on a single inspection. A restaurant’s food safety rating will be determined by the average of red critical violation points from a restaurant’s last four routine inspections.
Scale of performance. King County residents want to know more than if a restaurant passes or fails an inspection. The restaurant window signs will show how well the restaurant practices food safety beyond meeting the minimum standard.
Rating on a curve. Consumers tend to dine locally by their zip code or area. Rating on a curve provides accurate and useful information to consumers about how well a restaurant performs on food safety compared to other restaurants nearby. Also, restaurants within an area tend to have the same food inspector. Inspectors go through extensive training and all focus on food safety.
The four food safety ratings are:
- Needs to Improve: The restaurant was either closed by Public Health – Seattle & King County within the last year or the restaurant needed multiple return inspections to fix food safety practices.
- Okay: The restaurant has had MANY red critical violations over the last four inspections.
- Good: The restaurant has had SOME red critical violations over the last four inspections.
- Excellent: The restaurant has had No or Few red critical violations over the last four inspections.
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