Do you think health department restaurant letter grading helps?

armchair_warrior said:

over all it has done more good than bad, but i wish they would make it more effective.

Yes.

If mice are the enemy, shouldn't we go directly after them?

Maybe they could give away cats to catch the mice?

After all, I have yet to be convinced that the mice really care what grade we give them, or that they can even read.

"... I believe the city has been using the grading system as an excuse to fine hardworking restaurant owners and is simply trying to generate revenue," said Greenfield, whose research concluded that fines have more than doubled in the last ten years in New York City.

Tellingly, the administration's preliminary budget for next year has an increase in fines already budgeted in. "I'm all for clean restaurants, however, I'm against putting our best restaurants out of business by increasing fines for minor infractions like forgetting to cover a light bulb in a storage closet," Greenfield explained.

...Comments from Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) at last night's City Council oversight hearing.

The restaurant grading system has the support of the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers and it is a valuable public health tool. I hope that any changes the City Council makes to the system actually make it better and not worse.

The restaurant grading system has the support of the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers and it is a valuable public health tool. I hope that any changes the City Council makes to the system actually make it better and not worse.

lol politicians rarely make things better.

No. Different agents rate the same restaurant differently