(April 3, 2011 at 7:54 am)Tiberius Wrote:(April 2, 2011 at 2:16 pm)Ubermensch Wrote: Health inspection isn't a pass/fail kind of deal. It's actually a grading system, so it actually incentivises businesses. An establisment with an A+++ health rating is going to be more appealing to consumers than one with a D-, you dig? And yes, we should be checking these organisations regularly, they handle and prepare people's fucking FOOD. All the time! Strangers! I'd want to know that they are being held to AT LEAST minimum standards of quality and cleanliness! So that I can eat there with some degree of confidence that I am not going to get some sort of parasite that will eat my stomach lining! Prevention is better than cure and if that means we have to hold all food establishments to certain standards of safe practise then so fucking be it! I'm willing to pay a little bit extra in taxes in order to make sure I'm not going to be firing out both ends after I go to a restaurant, or even a fast food joint.1) How many times (be honest now) do you check a restaurant's health inspection results before eating there?
2) Even a restaurant achieving the maximum score on a health inspection does not mean it is safe to eat there. It means that at one point in time (i.e. the inspection), it was preparing foods according to a certain standard of care and cleanliness. It doesn't mean they are still doing it.
I check every restaurant on my first time there and from every year onwards. I'm a pedant like that. And yeah I get that a health inspection grade isn't an absolute guaruntee that it's going to be safe, nothing is. But it's a pretty fucking good indicator you dig?
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