Restaurant Inspections in Other State

Restaur
ant Inspections in Other States (due:
F
e
b
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: A
pproximately
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 eva
luated?
Sum
marize
your selected restaurant’s
overall inspection results, using three or four
sentences.
Question 3
)
Did you find any common food safety issues f
rom 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 wh
at
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: N
YC Restaurant inspection system
Quest
ion 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 a
s
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
re
staurant 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 re
staurant inspection examples, please click on the following link:
http://a816
–
restaurantinspection.nyc.gov/RestaurantInspection/SearchBrowse.do
You can choose t
he 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 ha
d
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