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Council approves letter grades for restaurants, food trucks, but not unanimously

The Boston City Council today approved a proposal by Mayor Walsh to force restaurants and food trucks to post letter grades for their health inspections, 10-1.

City Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) voted against the proposal, saying the city was rushing into the idea too fast.

"Certain neighborhoods and communities could be adversely affected by this if not implemented correctly," Jackson said.

Under the mayor's proposal, the letter grades would be voluntary for a year to let food sellers get used to it. Posting grades within five feet of a restaurant entrance would then become mandatory.

Currently, the city posts the results of health inspections online, without grades. Several other cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have long required food vendors let the public know how they did on prominently posted notices.

City councilors Frank Baker (Dorchester) and Tim McCarthy (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) were not present.

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What happened to the Scott Brown post?

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It's right here. The way UHub works, the home page only shows the 20 most recent posts. After that they go onto the index pages you can get to by clicking the little >> thingee at the bottom of the home page. Or try the search box.

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What is Tito Jackson saying here? This might adversely affect poorer neighborhoods? Are you suggesting their restaurants are dirtier? Sounds pretty insulting to me...

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Like shoveling snow

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No reason to conflate Jackson with the convicted felon who preceded him.

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Sounds like he's trying to cover for people who have way too many Board of Health failures.

Sorry Tito, people SHOULD do this so some of these places will clean up their act, so to speak. Having the food inspection reports as a grade makes it easy to read.. no more sifting online thru reports to find out what happened. If a business is adversely effected by them, then let them die off. We don't need nor want dirty food establishment in this city.

Food poisoning from bad food handling is not fun.. I've been there (and so many have too). Maybe Tito needs to get some food poisoning a few times to realize how important this is and how places in his district should want this ranking system.

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have had inspection grades required to be posted on restaurant front entrance, so you can't miss it before entering, for decades.

And all food handlers are required to get training and certification, not some bogus supposedly someone with any training at all about food handling is on duty, and their magical aura educates workers telepathically about all the things they have to know to not give everyone salmonella.

By the way, I think I'll not eat in Roxbury, if their own city councilor says posting restaurant inspection grades there would scare away customers.

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Hope you peruse the food court early and often, 'cause there're vios and suspensions in every neighborhood. Check out the fancy oyster and sushi places, even L'espelier gets vios.

Say goodbye to Myers and Chang, Aquitane, Toro, Squealing Pig, Gaslight, Mela, Stella, Tremont 647, Mike's City Diner, not to mention Flour, Render, Cafe Madeleine. They all fall under Roxbury jurisdiction.

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Tito sounds like an idiot. You can't "rush into something" that others cities have been doing something for many, many years. Does he think the technology of taping a piece of paper to a window is too advanced?

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They don't even have to start posting the grades for a year. So, we are not "rushing in" to anything.

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That gives them time to find the tape dispenser.

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Coming soon:

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Legal A Bar
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etc.

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Government ethics also of interest.

A thought experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedankenexperiment how might former Boston City Councilor Turner be forgiven?... and there are the good works of his Term in Office.

Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgiveness

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Here's the Food Police app.
https://appsto.re/us/fTTGL.i

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