Should restaurants make health inspection grades visible?

It’s a Saturday night in Washington, the Capitol rotunda is in view, and you’re walking along the avenue, trying to decide where to eat.

Posted outside restaurants’ windows are menus, Zagat ratings and clippings of local newspaper reviews. What’s missing, says D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh, is information about the restaurants’ sanitary conditions.

Cheh supports requiring restaurants to display a letter grade based on their most recent health department inspection. She says that now, residents must file public records requests for details on restaurant inspections.

“Surely the nation’s capital, with all its restaurants, you’d think we’d be a little more progressive,” she says.

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