The Health Inspector
The health inspector is a friend to all. His job is to keep you from getting sick when you go to a restaurant. He protects all of us from those restaurateurs that are not keeping their place clean and not following safe food practices. Food poisoning is terrible and potentially deadly stuff. We're thankful for the health inspector.
For the rest of us that genuinely try to do it right just because we think we should do the right thing, health inspections are a pain! We have been open since October of 2006. We have had 4 health inspections including our initial inspection. We received a score of 100 on three of them.
Today the health inspector came in during lunch while we had 12 people in line. We run a pretty trim operation, just Kenny and another person. So Kenny had to walk around with the inspector while our one staffer had to run the restaurant. They got through it, but it was tough.
So you're looking for the punchline. We received a 95 on this inspection. We were counted off because we didn't have proper test strips to test the sanitizer in our dishwasher, and we failed to transfer one of our products out of the manufacturers container for storage (it was stored at the proper temperature, sealed, and dated, however).
So this raises interesting feelings... "Great! we didn't get counted off for anything posing an immediate health risk. " The other feeling is, "We lost points for WHAT!?!?" Oh well.
As I said, I build TV facilities for a living. As you can imagine, I travel a lot. I, therefore, eat at a lot of restaurants. When it comes right down to it, I'm thankful that they're out there doing their job.
In case you're interested, here is a link to the website that lists health scores for Gwinnett, Rockdale, and Newton counties:
http://gwinnett.ga.gegov.com/gwinnett/scores.cfm
For the rest of us that genuinely try to do it right just because we think we should do the right thing, health inspections are a pain! We have been open since October of 2006. We have had 4 health inspections including our initial inspection. We received a score of 100 on three of them.
Today the health inspector came in during lunch while we had 12 people in line. We run a pretty trim operation, just Kenny and another person. So Kenny had to walk around with the inspector while our one staffer had to run the restaurant. They got through it, but it was tough.
So you're looking for the punchline. We received a 95 on this inspection. We were counted off because we didn't have proper test strips to test the sanitizer in our dishwasher, and we failed to transfer one of our products out of the manufacturers container for storage (it was stored at the proper temperature, sealed, and dated, however).
So this raises interesting feelings... "Great! we didn't get counted off for anything posing an immediate health risk. " The other feeling is, "We lost points for WHAT!?!?" Oh well.
As I said, I build TV facilities for a living. As you can imagine, I travel a lot. I, therefore, eat at a lot of restaurants. When it comes right down to it, I'm thankful that they're out there doing their job.
In case you're interested, here is a link to the website that lists health scores for Gwinnett, Rockdale, and Newton counties:
http://gwinnett.ga.gegov.com/gwinnett/scores.cfm
posted by Mat... the uncreative engineer | 9:31 AM
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