NYCEarlier this year the Board of Health began weighing a plan to require restaurants to prominently display a letter grade of A, B or C, depending on the sanitary conditions. (Those restaurants receiving Bs and Cs would be inspected more often than those inspectors' pets with the As.) A similar public grading system has been used in LA for years, and NYC's 24,000 restaurants will soon get with the left coast. But first, the Board of Health wants to hear your opinion!
A public hearing on the new restaurant grading system will be held on February 5th (details tba here), and the Board of Health is expected to vote on the measure in March, 2010. Under the new rules, restaurants receiving 0 to 13 violation points would receive A grades. Those with 14 to 27 points would get Bs, and those with more than 28 points would get Cs. Currently, about 30% of the city’s restaurants would qualify for A grades, 40% would get Bs and 26% would get Cs. When LA began the letter grading system, the proportion of restaurants meeting the highest food-safety standards rose from 40% to more than 80%, the Health Department says.
It's also worth nothing that the plan being considered would not require a restaurant receiving a B or C to post its grade immediately. These establishments will be re-inspected within a month, giving them a chance to improve. The grade from the second inspection would have to be posted, but the restaurateur could also elect to not post the grade until it has had the opportunity for a hearing. And while the restaurant’s inspection results are under review, the restaurant would post a card indicating that its grade is pending, leaving it up to diners' imaginations.
I really do am addicted to omnivox! I mean im at the restaurant with some friend and i go check if i have new grade via mobile web! Pathetic
ReplyDelete...my grade-school gym teacher came into the restaurant today and recognized me! Not bad for 20-something years ago! Go Mr. A!
ReplyDeleteI like how Brownings has wrapped restaurant-grade Saran Wrap around their sidewalk seating area in lieu of more traditional plastic curtains
ReplyDeletesomethingaintright when a restaurant has a B grade..stay clear no matter how good the food is
ReplyDeleteUpIn Harlem Where My Pops Had A Jamaican Spot Rowe's Restaurant & My 3rd Grade Class P.S 197 Went There After A Trip & Ate Made Food
ReplyDeleteRestaurant is playing my favorite song of 9th grade, the Black Crowes' "She Talks to Angels." I used to rewind the cassette to replay.
ReplyDeleteGood english grade, graduation day (officially graduate !) and restaurant with 3 friends to celebrate that ! What day !!!
ReplyDeleteThis Thai restaurant smells like a 2nd grade classroom's gerbil cage.
ReplyDeletewants to know why people say a system was hacked when it was the technological equivilant of listening in on a conversation in a restaurant.
ReplyDeleteUnless you have an extremely specialized air circulation system, like ours, so the restaurant doesn't fill up with smoke! Yikes!
ReplyDeleteThere is a confirmation system if the restaurant does't confirm with in 2 minutes we call. 90% of the time they confirm right away
ReplyDeleteThe ventilation system is broken, the entire restaurant is filled with smoke. I feel like i'm going to pass out.
ReplyDeleteGetting ready to launch MHungry, a new online restaurant ordering system
ReplyDeleteAlmaza ftw. restaurant system takeover. they just threw in LTJ Bukem's (progression session 5) for me
ReplyDeleteThinks its going to be a chaotic day in the restaurant with the computer system down.... Lmao fml
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