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Just a small gripe, really.
In Toronto we have a program where public health inspectors have to check out your restaurant two or three times a year, and determine whether you're following the rules for food safety and cleanliness of the venue. The restaurant gets a pass, fail or conditional pass rating and it's posted in the window. Green means pass, yellow means it can stay open but something has to be fixed, and red means the restaurant is closed until the problem is solved.
We had our inspection yesterday before I got to work. Boss was not happy, even though the poster is still green.
He's said to me in the past that the inspectors are not allowed to give a place a 100% perfect score, so even if nothing is wrong they have to make something up. Yesterday they told him he has to have a sink with two compartments rather than just one. He's been there thirteen years with the same sink and nobody ever had a problem with the sink. Now they're telling him it has to be replaced. Oh, and it has to be done in the next six months. So it's not a conditional pass where this is vital enough that it needs to be fixed now, he just has to have it fixed by the time of the next regular inspection. After thirteen years he has six months to do it. Seems fishy, and fits with his claim that they aren't allowed to give 100% scores.
He also said once that there used to be a Chinese inspector on the job, and she scored his restaurant better than the white inspectors, who would nitpick every tiny little thing. He suspects that they're playing off the Chinatown stereotype of filthy roach-filled restaurants because he's Chinese, even though he's not in Chinatown. I did not have the courage to ask him whether yesterday's inspector was Chinese or white.
In Toronto we have a program where public health inspectors have to check out your restaurant two or three times a year, and determine whether you're following the rules for food safety and cleanliness of the venue. The restaurant gets a pass, fail or conditional pass rating and it's posted in the window. Green means pass, yellow means it can stay open but something has to be fixed, and red means the restaurant is closed until the problem is solved.
We had our inspection yesterday before I got to work. Boss was not happy, even though the poster is still green.
He's said to me in the past that the inspectors are not allowed to give a place a 100% perfect score, so even if nothing is wrong they have to make something up. Yesterday they told him he has to have a sink with two compartments rather than just one. He's been there thirteen years with the same sink and nobody ever had a problem with the sink. Now they're telling him it has to be replaced. Oh, and it has to be done in the next six months. So it's not a conditional pass where this is vital enough that it needs to be fixed now, he just has to have it fixed by the time of the next regular inspection. After thirteen years he has six months to do it. Seems fishy, and fits with his claim that they aren't allowed to give 100% scores.
He also said once that there used to be a Chinese inspector on the job, and she scored his restaurant better than the white inspectors, who would nitpick every tiny little thing. He suspects that they're playing off the Chinatown stereotype of filthy roach-filled restaurants because he's Chinese, even though he's not in Chinatown. I did not have the courage to ask him whether yesterday's inspector was Chinese or white.
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