In another food-related article in this week's Velocity, Lisa Hornung does a good job of summing up the Metro Louisville restaurant sanitation-inspection process, including a clear summary of the controversial policy that allows restaurants that get a "C" grade to reverse it quickly while forcing those that get a "B" to live with it for six months or more.
The story also contains a useful URL (not hotlinked on the Velocity site) to the <b>Metro Health Department's Restaurant Inspection Scores</b> search engine, where you can plug in all or part of a restaurant's name and get back the score on its most recent inspection. (Detailed narrative and point-by-point reports are available to the public as open records, but you can't find them online, you have to go down to the Health Department and look them up in person.)
Here's a link to the Velocity story:
[url=http://www.velocityweekly.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070829/VELOCITY01/708290473/1065]<B>Making the Grade</b>
That restaurant got a B. What does that mean for you and your sandwich?[/url]