Clean Plate
How to read a grade
A grade describes one inspection on one day. Here’s what it tells you, what it doesn’t, and how this site shows it.
A grade reflects one day
An inspector visits, scores what they find, and posts a letter. That letter stays in the window until the next visit — which may be next month or next year. So a letter on its own tells you almost nothing until you know when it was earned. That is why no grade appears anywhere on this site without its date and the kind of inspection that produced it, and why a grade older than 365 days is labelled as old wherever it appears.
Only routine inspections set the grade
Inspectors make several kinds of visit. Only a routine inspection produces the posted grade. A follow-up two weeks after a C confirms that problems were fixed, but it does not repost a new letter — so treating the follow-up as the current grade would erase the C entirely. Facility pages show the routine grade as the placard and list every other visit beneath it.
Not everything here is a restaurant
A food permit covers school kitchens, hospital cafeterias, grocery service counters and mobile units as well as restaurants. Anything that is not a restaurant says so on its card and on its page. A school kitchen with a B is not somewhere you were going to eat.
Reports come straight from the agency
Every inspection with a published report links to the agency's own PDF. The agency's copy is the record of authority; a mirror here would go stale the moment a report was amended, and you would have no way to know. If a fact on this site matters to you, follow the link and read the report.
Corrections
This site republishes public records; it does not create them. If a grade or an address is wrong here, it is almost certainly wrong upstream, and the publisher is the only party who can correct it. Each jurisdiction's source is linked on the data page. If the error is ours — a page showing something the source does not — the extract that produced it is identified there by commit.