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