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DEL.ICIO.USHave you noticed any changes in restaurant grades yet?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On Monday, health inspectors across Georgia started enforcing new health codes for restaurants, schools, hospitals and other places that serve food. One of the changes for diners is seeing an inspection form with letter as well as number grades. Another is seeing the inspection form more prominently displayed, on drive-through windows and within 15 feet of a restaurant’s entrance.
County environmental health departments — some of them, anyway — aren’t requiring restaurants to start displaying scores on their drive-throughs until they’re inspected under the new rules, which could be as long as six months from the date the rules took effect, on Dec. 1. So there may not be much immediate evidence of any changes.
So far, reaction seems muted. The Georgia Restaurant Association hasn’t heard much from its members, except some questions about interpreting some parts of the code. State health officials say things are quiet. What does it look like for diners? Have you noticed any changes, or seen one of the new inspection forms posted yet? (By the way, if you live in Fulton, you won’t see them for a while. The county plans to adopt the rules in early 2008. They’re in effect everywhere else in Georgia now.)
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