Village Voice don’t like disclosure

Once trendy, now trashy, New York’s The Village Voice has nothing but disdain for NYC’s restaurant inspection grading system.

Most recently, the Voice used the dirty kitchen story to conclude, “Your kitchen is probably filthier than New York’s dirtiest dive.”

“In yet another glaring example that the Department of Health’s restaurant inspection letter grades are likely to be formidably misunderstood by the average dining Joe, researchers have found that at least one in seven home kitchens would fail the DOH inspection — in other words, score less than a C grade. …

“If the top-rated restaurant in the city can only get a C (and White Castle is at the top of the class alongside A-graded Popeye’s Chicken and McDonald’s), something must be wrong with the system.”
 

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A former professor of food safety and the publisher of barfblog.com, Powell is passionate about food, has five daughters, and is an OK goaltender in pickup hockey. Download Doug’s CV here. Dr. Douglas Powell editor, barfblog.com retired professor, food safety 3/289 Annerley Rd Annerley, Queensland 4103 dpowell29@gmail.com 61478222221 I am based in Brisbane, Australia, 15 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time