Schulman asks initial vs. re-inspection A rates and grade posting enforcement
Schulman asks what percentage of restaurants earn an A on initial inspection versus re-inspection, and about missing or obscured grade cards. Schiff says a bit over half earn an A initially and says grade posting is checked in routine inspections, complaints, and sweeps, with just over 870 violations issued in FY26.
A restaurant has two chances to earn an A in every inspection cycle.
If it doesn't earn an A on the first inspection, it's scored but ungraded.
An inspector then goes back to the restaurant unannounced and the re-inspection is graded.
What percentage of establishments earn an A on the initial inspection versus re-inspection?
A bit over half get that A at the first inspection.
Okay.
What percentage of the staff we...
Let me do that again.
Does the department have data on how often posted grades are missing, obscured, and not displayed as required?
By the way, I have a food place in my district that has no...
Nothing in their window or inside, but we'll talk about that.
And how is posting enforced?
So first we'll follow up with you to get the details about that restaurant.
And we do inspect for grade card posting violations, we would generally call that.
That's part of every routine inspection.
We will respond to complaints about that.
And we do sometimes do grade card sweeps, we call them, to see that restaurants are posting their grade card.
I can tell you that in FY26, we issued just over 870 violations.