Restaurants will be under a lot more consumer scrutiny for cleanliness.
Yelp's decided that user ratings shouldn't be the only metric that its users go by when frequenting restaurants. The restaurant rating and discovery service has added Restaurant Inspection Scores, which will now contribute to ratings.
CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced that Yelp is also unveiling a new open data standard, dubbed the "Local Inspector Value-entry Specification" or LIVES. LIVES allows local authorities to add health inspection scores to the website, though this will also be limited to San Francisco and New York, for now.
Stoppelman hopes that this the LIVES initiatives will help levels of food-borne illness drop. So, restaurants, no matter how tasty your food may be, it might be a good idea to keep your standard of cleanliness pretty high too.
It was just closed about a month ago for excessive health violations.
Unfortunately, food-borne pathogens (bacterial or fungal) do not need to multiply inside the body for it to cause illness. Certain pathogens can multiply on medium suitable for their growth (i.e. food), contaminate food easily with exotoxins, and that, hits you fast.
If food is prepared, then served buffet-style, that just adds the time for contamination.
Exactly, and everybody has perfect immune systems, and the ambient temperature of the room is zero degrees, and the ingredients used to cook the food are the most fresh ever to begin with.