Restaurant site: Yelp, warning for users: Restaurant / hygiene test results
Los Angeles
February 05, 2020
Restaurant information site: Yelp
On January 22, a warning was issued to consumers about restaurants with poor health scores in Los Angeles County and Chicago.
Jälp is a service that provides local business information such as restaurants, retail stores, and beauty salons.
Monthly average / 91.3 million website visits (as of September 2019)
Users can rate and post photos / reviews of stores using 1 to 5 stars.
From January 22, when you read reviews of store information with a bad score, a pop-up “Consumer Alert: Low Food Safety Score!”
This warning display:
In the United States, a demonstration experiment started in San Francisco in 2015, and the target cities were expanded.
Local sanitation departments regularly conduct food hygiene inspections at restaurants.
For Los Angeles:
Grade according to the result
A (90-100 points),
B (80-89 points),
C (70-79 points),
(Only points are scored below 69)
For Chicago:
Pass,
Pass with Conditions,
Announcement of Fail
In Jälp, a score of 100 out of 100 created by a data specialist company based on official inspections is posted.
“Chicago Tribune” newspaper: (electronic edition January 22)
In the last 6 months, the bottom 1% of stores (approximately 30 stores) were subject to warnings.
-JETRO
https://www.jetro.go.jp/biznews/2020/02/8ee3ff64d6f85033.html