Restaurant Ranking ProCon

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Restaurant RankingPro/Con

• David F. Ludwig, M.P.H., R.S.
• Maricopa County
• Environmental Health

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What does the Public Want ?

• Easy Access to Information regarding the
  Sanitation of the Food Facility? How?
• Grade Card or Award in the Front window
• Internet Access to Health Inspections
• Number of Critical Violations
• Posted Previous Inspection

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Lets Look at Some Web Sites
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Simple and Straight Forward
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Static Violation List
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Facility Posted Grade Cards
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See the A Card
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How does the Public define Significant?
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Inspectors Observational Comments
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Challenge Not Every Food Service Regulatory
uses the Same Set of Violations
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Inspectors Observational Comments
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State Based Evaluation Rating System
Note that to have a Good Rating an
Establishment is Required to Correct all
Critical Violations While the Inspector is On Site
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Sorting is done by Month and Rating Type
Needs Improvement
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Violation Definitions Static
Indication if Violation was Corrected during
Inspection
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Challenge Not Every Food Service Regulatory
uses the Same Scoring System
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What do they mean?
Green Placard ("Pass") A high level of
compliance achieved. Yellow Placard
("Conditional Pass") Violations observed that
required immediate correction and a follow-up
inspection. Red Placard ("Closed") Closure is
required when an immediate danger to public
health or safety is observed.
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Public Sees the Actual Inspection
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So What Works? Wheres the Proof
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Interactive and Able to Sort
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What Violations can Occur and still be an A
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Do Grade Cards Make Inspectors More Lenient?

• Pressure between scoring a 89 vs. 90
• LA average score in below income area before
  Grade Cards - 74.5
• Average score in above the median 78.8
• One year after Grade Cards below income 89.8
• Above median 89.5

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What are the Percentages Today after 7 Years
A Card 88.75
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What are the Percentages Today after 7 Years
B Card 10.51
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What are the Percentages Today after 7 Years
C Card 0.69
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What are the Percentages Today after 7 Years
D Card 0.004
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• Pure Economics
• A Card increases Revenue by 5.7 compared to
  Not having a card
• B Card increases Revenue by 0.7 compared to
  Not having a card
• C Card decreases Revenue by 1

Zin Leslie Choices 05
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Since Instituting Grade Cards in 1998
13.1 Reduction in Foodborne Illness
Hospitalizations Reported
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Gold - Top 25
Silver - Middle 50
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Based on CDC Identified Risk Factors for
Foodborne Illness

• Time/Temperature
• Hands as a vehicle of contamination
• Good Hygienic Practices
• Approved Sources
• Protection from Contamination

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Extra Weight has been added

• 20 Points
• 1A Raw animal foods cooked to min. Temp.
• 4A Foods cooled in appropriate time
• 12A Persons with discharges
• 13A Bare Hand Contact
• 26C ROP
• 15 Points
• 2A Hot Holding
• 5A Cold Holding
• 16A Food Receiving
• 16B Shell Egg Receiving
• 16C Fluid Eggs that are not pasteurized

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Bare Hand Contact
Cooling
Cooking
Ill Worker
ROP
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Extra Weight

• 10 Points
• 3A Reheating
• 6A Hands washed when necessary
• 8A Hand washing procedures
• 15A Foods from Approved Sources/Safe
• 15C Raw Fish treated for parasite
• 15E Unsafe food not properly discarded
• 15H Bottled water not from approved source
• 17A Shellfish tags not present
• 18A Food protected from cross contamination
• 19A Re-Service of food
• 19C Food contacting unsanitized surfaces
• 20A Cleaned frequently
• 20B Not clean to sight and touch
• 22B Date marked food not disposed of
• 25A Time as a control

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Values

• 5 Points
• Other Criticals
• 3 Points
• PE1 Washing hands in wrong sink
• H1 Hand sanitizer not approved
• H2 Handsink not accessible
• H4 No soap
• H5 No towels
• H6 Handwashing supplies at mop sink
• S3 Freezing records for fish not kept
• F1 Fruits/Vegetables not washed
• W4 Water used as san. Out of temp range mech.
  warewashing
• W22 Improper water pressure mech. warewashing
• W23 Improper use of detergent-sanitizer
• C5 Non-critical cleaning of food-contact
• 1 point
• Other non-criticals

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Gold - 36
Silver - 47
No Award - 17
Training - lt1
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Gold - 34
Silver - 48
No Award - 18
Training - lt1
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Gold - 36
Silver - 47
No Award - 17
Training - 1
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46 Reduction in Major Violations
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What Are Your Thoughts on Food Service Public
Notifications?
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Questions ?
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