Restaurant Inspections in Other State

Online Activity #5 (20 points)

Restaurant Inspections in Other States (due: Feb 22, Thursday prior to our class)

Note to students: You have completed two online activities regarding restaurant inspection

reports in Michigan, and are now asked to research two other restaurant inspection systems

located in other States. You may certainly refer to the restaurant inspection system ppt (Feb 1

ppt from PowerPoint folder, HB 265 D2L).

Length: Approximately 2 pages (single space, 12 font size) – Not more than 3 pages

Part I: San Francisco’s inspection system

Question 1) Please describe San Francisco’s scoring system (e.g. three main differences

between the SF and Michigan restaurant inspection systems). Among differences, please

point out the risk designation (hint: in State of Michigan, we used the priority, priority

foundation, and core items )

Question 2) Review an actual restaurant inspection example located in San Francisco, and

then answer the following questions. What is the name of restaurant you evaluated?

Summarize your selected restaurant’s overall inspection results, using three or four

sentences.

Question 3) Did you find any common food safety issues from that particular restaurant?

* San Francisco Restaurant Inspection System -

Click on the following link for San Francisco Department of Public Health:

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/EH/Food/Score/

You can find the information about how the restaurant scoring system works and what the

“symbol of excellence” is.

To browse one of the restaurant inspection examples, please click on the “online inspection

database” from the link above.

You may type one of the many franchised restaurants (Olive Garden, Pizza Hut, etc..) in order

to see actual inspection examples.

Part II: NYC Restaurant inspection system

Question 1) Please describe the NYC restaurant inspection system (e.g., three main

differences between the NYC and Michigan restaurant inspection systems). Among

differences, please point out the risk designation.

Question 2) Again, you are asked to research at least one of the restaurant’s (located in

NYC) inspection results. Please include the name of the restaurant that you evaluated as

well as a short summary of the overall restaurant inspection results.

Question 3) Would you go back to the website (or use the mobile app) in order to check the

restaurant inspection comments if you travel to the NYC (or live in the NYC)? Please tell

me why or why not? (There is no right or wrong answer.)

* NYC Letter Grades - ABC grading system

The following link describes how the NYC health department scores and grades

restaurants’ sanitary conditions: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/rii/how-

we-score-grade.pdf

To browse one of restaurant inspection examples, please click on the following link:

http://a816-restaurantinspection.nyc.gov/RestaurantInspection/SearchBrowse.do

You can choose the restaurant from the alphabetical list or type one of the franchised

restaurants in the box to see the actual inspection examples.

Question 4) If you had any authority to redesign the restaurant health inspection system in

Michigan, what would be your recommendations? Certainly, you can use your own

experiences researching other States’ restaurant inspection systems.