Atlanta area restaurant scores a record-breaking 13 out of 100 in a health inspection. Anything below 70 is considered “unacceptable.” [WSBTVvia Fark]
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Yes, I’d like to order the E-Coli platter please!
I’ll take what he’s having, with a side of botulism to go.
The newspaper’s website http://www.ajc.com had the actual report card yesterday. The inspector was there for 6 hours!
13/100? I think my apartment would score better on a hospital-quality health inspection [now that's bad!]
I know where I’m not eating when I visit next month.
That’s nice to know. I’m going to Atlanta on Saturday.
@BayStateDarren: 13/100? I think my apartment would score better on a hospital-quality health inspection
Wow, I’m an idiot. I somehow read Atlanta area restaurant scores a record-breaking 13 out of 100 in a health inspection. Anything below 70 is considered ”unacceptable.” and thought, “The establishment in question is a hospital.”
What I don’t understand is according to the County website, they scored over 80 in November 2007.
Either the last inspection wasn’t thorough or they went downhill awfully fast.
Anywhere else but Atlanta I’d be surprised.
OK, Detroit and Cleveland too.
The kicker? The inspection was requested by the restaurant: [www.ajc.com]
Paging Gordon Ramsay!! Urgent!
I wish local newspapers would run the results of the inspections of each restaurant in town. It’d be nice to know. Does anyone know if there is any way to find out what the results of an inspection are?
I know in my hometown they are printed annually.
As someone who has been through many health inspections before (including one on Monday), there is a major difference between stuff that actually matters (food being stored at an improper temperture, cross contamination)and stuff that actually doesn’t matter (the remaining 70% of the inspection).
If you read what they allow and still score a 90 (let alone a 70) it will put you off eating out altogether. To score a 13 they must’ve had rotting corpses draped over the tables.
wow. i got diarrhea just reading that.
@Darkwish: Poo-Poo platter for moi.
I live here in atlanta (well, just north of if actually).
I worked fast food back in the 80′s so it has been a while… At the 3 different places I worked (McDonalds, DQ and a local mall eatery) We always somehow found out the day before when the health inspector was coming. Knowing this, extra staff would be brought in and we would spend hours getting the place ready.
My guess is that when they got the 80+ score, they had advance notice and this time, it was most likely a surprise visit.
@SkyeBlue:
I know here in GA, you have to post your health inspection certificate in a highly visible place. It would be nice though, to have an online source to lookup.
@SkyeBlue: Check your county’s health department website. Ours has a searchable database for inspection results.
[www.co.hamilton.in.us]
Yikes! Here is the actual inspection report from Gwinnett County.
[gwinnett.ga.gegov.com]
Looks like they shut them down immediately.
Note: Per food service rules 290-5-14-.10(1)(b) permit is suspended due to multiple risk factor violations/failure to comply with code provisions.
@RokMartian: It’s similar in South Carolina (although they only have to display their rating, “A” “B” or “C”). North Carolina displays the full inspection result number, in addition to a letter score.
Having lived in Ohio, Indiana, and Massachusetts previously, the whole thing was new to me. There you know if a place fails because you can’t get in
If I’d known more about the rating system when I first moved here, I wouldn’t have eaten at the IHOP with a B on its door.
Jeepers. Compare:
to what they failed. (report linked above @JMB ]
Manager, you got a low score BECAUSE YOUR RESTAURANT IS EXTREMELY NASTY! And take note of “Management awareness; policy present; reporting”… YOU didn’t have a clue and THAT was part of your low score problem. (Although I expect the EXTREMELY NASTY aspect was a bigger factor.)
Even if it were just the new rules they had an entire year to be ready for them. A year.
This guy is full of crap excuses.
Mar y Tierra Family Mexican Restaurant = EPIC FAIL
@RokMartian: There is one here: [gwinnett.ga.gegov.com]
List of all the Georgia county web sites
@mammalpants: Haha! Nice. Especially considering your name.