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Understanding Restaurants Health Inspections
By Brian Ward
With today's busy life styles, eating out in restaurants is becoming more and more common. We tend to take the easy road for our fast paced life. There are some things you need to know before you take a seat at your favorite restaurant. The first thing you should do is look for the health inspection sheet; this sheet tells you what grade the restaurant made on their health inspection. This inspection is performed by our government to ensure healthy and sanitized procedures are taking place in the establishment you're visiting.
This inspection sheet should be located near the front of the restaurant on a wall, it should be framed. This sheet is pink in color. The grade will be on the upper right hand side of the paper. The higher the grade, the better this establishment has performed in following the guidelines for better health conditions. If the grade is low, this means that not all heath regulations are being followed.
This inspection sheet tells you all areas and procedures that should be followed by the restaurant. It follows a point system. It is pretty easy to tell what your favorite dinning place is doing to ensure their customers are safe. Most restaurants average in the upper 80's, which means they need to improve their health practices. In our local town, they televise these reports. This gives restaurant establishments an extra incentive to be clean which can really improve the safety of dining experience.
The most important thing on this pink health inspection sheet is that you understand the grade. Look for this simple little word (ADJUSTED). This means the first time the inspector came to grade the restaurant; it failed to pass the guidelines. Restaurants who fail to meet health guidelines are given ten days to comply or they will have to close their doors. I personally think that they should close the doors immediately if the restaurant is not practicing safe and healthy procedures. Then, when the restaurant complies and reopens their doors, it will be up to you to decide if you want to eat there.
About the Author
Brian Ward author of information articles. Visit his website at http://www.carpetcleaninghelp.com
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