Food safety: Spotted an "OK" in the wild

On the way to Tat's today, I noticed the new food safety rating sign in the window of Nirmal's. If you haven't yet noticed these signs everywhere, it's because the Seattle/King County health department just started rolling out the new signage system in January.

Restaurants get rated Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs to Improve. I've only seen Excellents and Goods before today, which according to the health department accounts for 90% of the restaurants. But today, I encountered one of the 10%:

The health department says "Okay" means "the restaurant has had MANY red critical violations over the last four inspections." In Nirmal's case, it was handwashing issues and food storage temperatures that earned them the "Okay". During Nirmal's routine inspections, it received a score of 80 at its May 8 , preceded by a clean scores January 27 and last year on September 14, but received a 75 last July. A subsequent inspection on May 22 shows they remedied their defects, getting a clean score again.

Meh. It's probably Okay to eat there.