Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Restaurants / Food & Life Restaurant poisoning
Posted by Cliff Bostock on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Out of curiosity, I did look up the restaurant's health department rating and found, to my surprise, that it has a history of low scores in the 70s, although its most recent score was 96.
You can look up any restaurant in Fulton County by going to the health department site and clicking on the link under "food inspections scores." (Most other counties also post scores on the Web.)
New York City inspectors, by the way, will soon be giving restaurants an A, B or C rating for food safety and cleanliness, according to the Associated Press. The rating, as in Georgia, must be displayed in a prominent spot. The new system is creating a good bit of controversy, but its rationale depends on a solid, mind-boggling statistic:
Health officials say they are changing the way they rate restaurants because every year 11,000 people go to hospitals in New York City for food-borne illness related to eating out, and that number is rising.
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Oh Cliff, that's the grossest picture ever...my stomach did a not-so-happy flip when I saw it D:
My friend got violently sick early Sunday morning (3-4am) after we hit up 2 popular spots around Atlanta the previous afternoon.
Do you ever report the illness? Seems like restaurants would want to know they have a problem, but I never say anything because I don't want to be accusatory if I'm not 100% sure. And really, will it help the situation?
I'm curious what other people do in this situation.
I get sick eating bar food all the time. It could have something to do with the 5-6 shots of tequila mixed with the 3-4 beers which I wash it all down with though.
I got curious and browsed the inspection report. There is some interesting data there.
There are plenty of restaurants (such as La Pietra) that received scores of below 70, but then you can see just a few days later they received a score above 90. One little thing can really screw up the grade, and they do very well upon re-review.
But my guess is that your meal was at MF Sushi.
The Fulton County inspection report is outdated. looks like the latest report is in '08.
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