New York restaurants await first round of Department of Health letter grades for display in windows
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at
6:37 pm
The city’s new restaurant letter-grading plan, which will hand out As, Bs and Cs for the first time, received a big F from restaurateurs.
Vincent Mazzone, owner of the Chicken Masters restaurant in Brooklyn, called the idea “sophomoric, and punitive and demeaning to restaurateurs, as if they are schoolchildren who must be graded,” according to The New York Times’ Diner’s Journal blog.
The letter-grading program, which begins in July, will improve the quality of restaurant meals, the city’s Health Department insisted. The city will provide placards to restaurants, which will be rated with a blue A, a green B or a yellow C. The signs must be displayed in a prominent place in the restaurant’s vestibule or front window.
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