The city has inspected restaurants for decades, but the results have been available only online or at the health department; now they will be displayed in the restaurant itself.
It brought to mind a crackdown in 2006, when the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene inspected restaurants using the sous vide method, in which food is vacuum-sealed in plastic for slow cooking at low temperatures.
Investigate the organization's role in inspecting restaurants and alerting consumers to potential health risks in local restaurants.
To check on compliance, the association occasionally inspects restaurants, but more often it looks at invoices to confirm that they are buying nontoxic cleaning products, energy efficient light bulbs and the like.
When extra state police patrols first began appearing in Montauk in May, boarding boats, stopping trucks and inspecting restaurants, residents called it harassment, retaliation for an earlier incident when the tires of several police cars were slashed during a bar fight.
Government's goal in inspecting restaurants and publishing scores is public health and safety - using open data technology we're taking the labor intensive work of a public health department, and with the click of a button, making it dramatically more valuable to its citizens.
State officials inspected the restaurant on Dec. 9, when during a routine inspection they said they found a broken dishwasher and several instances of food being stored improperly, such as having raw meat and fish stored above other food products.
As he inspected the restaurant, a pair of I.T. guys milled around nervously out front.
Before we were allowed to talk to him, Schaeffer's tactical liaison Rufus Reed inspected the restaurant and questioned us to make sure it wasn't a trap.
Environmental health officers inspected the restaurant kitchen and reviewed food preparation processes on May 17.
