For Weld County restaurant inspections dated October 16, 2023 or later, start with the county’s current inspection portal. For earlier reports, try the legacy Weld County search. A history spanning that change may require both sources: match the food operation, keep each inspection’s date and type, and look for a reopening event separately from its latest score.
Weld County’s October 2023 announcement identifies October 16 as the start date for results in the replacement system. This is a guide to the county’s records, not a live status check of an individual restaurant. The legacy site was blocked during our September 19, 2026 check; the current portal worked. The contact route below can help if an older report is inaccessible to you too.
Open the food operation’s history, not just its latest result
The inspecting agency is the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment. Its Restaurant Inspections page links the current public search. Confirm that this is the agency for the establishment’s actual street address; a city name or a nearby branch is not enough to match a record.
In the portal, enter a distinctive part of the business name under Find an Establishment or Location. Compare the addresses in the results before opening the facility name. A name search can return multiple branches and different food operations. If you use Browse all inspections instead, its filters include Date Range, Program Type, City, and Result. Choose Retail Food for food inspections. A cafeteria can appear under Retail Food even when its name includes a school; the separate Schools program is not a substitute for that food record.
The facility page has Most Recent Inspection followed by an Inspections List. Read the list when checking a past closure or follow-up. The newest card alone can hide the sequence you need: a Routine visit and a later Re-Inspection are separate events, even if both ultimately display Pass.
The two kinds of page have different identifiers. A facility URL contains permitID, while an individual report URL contains inspectionID. Save both full URLs. The first takes you back to the facility’s listed history; the second returns to one report. Neither identifier should be assumed to match an identifier in the legacy system.
Open the report’s View link and read its date, Score & Grade, and Observations & Corrective Actions. Use View Original Inspection PDF when you need the underlying document. Keep the inspection type shown in the history row with that report; the report header may not repeat it clearly. A numbered observation inside the report is a finding from that visit, not another inspection.
A Weld score of 90 is not a 90-out-of-100 grade
Weld uses risk-index points: lower is better. Its current portal gives these bands: 0–49: Pass; 50–109: Re-Inspection Required; 110 or more: Closed. Read the official points and result together. Do not subtract the points from 100 or convert them to a letter grade.
For example, a hypothetical report with 90 points falls in the reinspection band. That number does not mean 90 percent compliance. Open its findings, then look for a later Re-Inspection and read what was checked or corrected. Keep any closure event visible too; a later low score is not, by itself, the reopening record.
“Opening” is an event to read, not today’s business status
The current portal describes Closure as an inspection type associated with an imminent health hazard and Opening as a review after those conditions have been corrected. In older Weld records, the corresponding reopening wording was Conditions Met to Re-open. Preserve the label actually printed in each record instead of rewriting both eras into a status called “open.”
Other legacy labels also limit what a visit establishes. A Check-in was a brief visit about a particular item; New Facility Check Up was described as nonregulatory. Those entries should not be counted as full routine inspections or substituted for a documented reopening review. If the event label and the narrative seem inconsistent, ask the county to clarify that report.
The broader closure and permit suspension guide explains how an inspection, closure order, and permit status can provide different evidence. For Weld, retain both the event type and the score/result rather than collapsing them into one field.
Connect the dates without merging different operators
Consider this invented example, not an actual restaurant history. Assume the county confirms that all three reports concern the same food operation:
| Date | Source and event | What to carry forward |
|---|---|---|
| October 12, 2023 | Legacy: Closure | The dated closure report and its stated reason |
| October 13, 2023 | Legacy: Conditions Met to Re-open | The separate conditions-met review, retaining its original wording |
| November 2, 2023 | Current: Routine | The current facility’s permitID and this report’s inspectionID, points, result, and findings |
The November inspection adds a later observation. It does not erase either October event or establish conditions on every day between visits. Likewise, the October reopening record does not establish that the operation is still open today.
For a real search, compare the full address, establishment name, and any operator or facility identifiers the reports provide. If ownership or names differ, ask the county whether the records belong to the same licensed operation before combining them. The same address can have a new operator, and matching names can belong to different branches. Keep unresolved matches separate.
When the earlier report is missing
Contact Weld County’s Environmental Health Division at (970) 400-6415, the number listed in its Food Safety FAQ. Ask where or how to obtain the specific report. Give the facility name, complete address, approximate inspection date, former name if relevant, and any record identifier you already have. If you are tracing a closure, name the missing event—for example, the later reopening review—rather than asking only for the latest score.
For a missing current report, check restrictive date, program, city, and result filters, then open the matched facility’s full list. The public interface does not establish that every legacy record was migrated or that either system contains a complete lifetime history. A blocked search in our environment is also not proof of a public outage.
If the address is in Denver’s jurisdiction, use the Denver inspection search guide; its source transition and visit labels differ from Weld’s. A county’s favorable result, an old adverse finding, or an absent online record cannot establish a restaurant’s present safety. Keep the issuing agency and inspection date attached to any conclusion.
Official routes and interface labels checked September 19, 2026 (UTC).