For a Spokane County restaurant, start at the Spokane Regional Health District’s inspection page and open its Food Establishments summary. Find the establishment by name, confirm its street address, and read each inspection date and type before its listed violations. The district says this public document is a summary; request the complete inspection report from SRHD if you need the inspector’s full account or a correction decision that the summary does not show.
Check the summary’s own coverage dates before calling any entry “latest.” The Food Establishments summary link on SRHD’s page has no date in its address, so read the date range printed at the top of the file each time you open it. On October 20, 2026, the posted summary was the one dated January 21, 2026, covering inspections from December 31, 2024 through January 15, 2026; for a visit after the printed end date, ask the district. The district also offers a separate temporary-food-establishment summary, so choose the document for the operation involved.
Search the summary by place, then order the visits
Open the Food Establishments summary from SRHD’s page and search for the business name. The document says entries are alphabetical; compare the facility address before using a match. A name alone can be misleading because the district warns that the summary leaves out changes in name, ownership or management. For an ownership or location question, ask the district for the underlying record rather than joining two entries by a familiar sign.
Under a matched facility, note every inspection date and label in order. As an example, the summary posted in January 2026 shows this on its second page: one location has a March 11, 2025 routine inspection, an April 14 first reinspection, and October 23 and 24 routine inspections. The sequence shows that a reinspection is a separate dated event, while the full report shows which earlier observation caused that visit and whether all later work was complete. Read the listed item numbers and descriptions as observations from those dates.
What SRHD’s routine, reinspection and follow-up labels mean
SRHD’s inspection-type explanation makes distinctions that the summary’s short labels can otherwise hide:
| SRHD type | Why it matters when reading the history |
|---|---|
| Routine | A regular, unannounced inspection of the food-service operation. |
| First or second reinspection | A return visit checking critical or repeat violations; the second checks repeats identified at the previous reinspection. |
| Follow-up | A visit after a second reinspection in the district’s described sequence. |
| Complaint or illness investigation | An item-specific visit based on a complaint; the findings show whether the complaint held up. |
| Pre-operational | A facility and equipment check before a new, remodeled or previously closed establishment opens. |
Each label marks a different kind of visit, and an empty violation list describes that visit only. Match the label, date, address and specific item before comparing visits, and look for a reopening decision in its own record rather than in a later routine entry.
Ask for the complete report when the summary stops short
The district says its online summaries reflect observations at the inspection time and directs readers to a public-records request for a complete report. When you contact SRHD, give the facility address, inspection date and type, and identify the particular correction or action you are trying to verify. For inspections after the summary window ended, ask the district directly.
Keep two dates in a request: the inspection date you want and the summary document’s report date. If the visit you need is later than the end date printed on the summary, say so in the request. Ask for the specific later inspection or reopening decision you need, since each summary covers a fixed past window.
How many visits the summary window should hold
SRHD says it inspects each food establishment in Spokane County one to two times a year. The summary posted in January 2026 spans about 12 and a half months, so most permanent establishments should show at least one routine inspection in it, and higher-risk kitchens often two. A matched facility with no routine entry in that window is worth a question to the district, especially if the business opened, moved or changed hands during it. The page notes that changes in name, ownership or management aren’t shown, and SRHD issues a separate change-of-ownership permit, so a new owner’s history may start fresh under the same sign.
The QR sign you see in Spokane County restaurants is a legal requirement. SRHD’s sign restates the Washington State Retail Food Code, WAC 246-215-08350, which requires food establishments to tell customers that the most recent inspection report or summary is available for review. Scanning it opens the same district page rather than a live result, so check the summary’s dates there too.
For a complete report, SRHD asks for a public records request through its records contact form. The food safety program is at 509-324-1560 ext. 2 (Monday to Wednesday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday from 8:30 a.m., Friday until 12:30 p.m.). To report unsafe food handling or a suspected foodborne illness, the district points to the Washington State Department of Health’s Foodborne Illness Notification System. For other Washington counties, our Tacoma–Pierce County guide shows how a different health department publishes the same kind of record.
If you need help distinguishing an item citation from a later verified correction, use the inspection-violation guide. For an address outside SRHD’s Spokane County program, start with the jurisdiction directory instead of applying Spokane’s visit labels to another agency.
Spokane Regional Health District pages and food-establishment summary checked October 20, 2026.