Last updated on April 3rd, 2017 at 06:46 pm

Sanitary Inspection Grade AIn a press conference that took place on Monday August 19th, 2013, the purported deal struck between the City Council and the Health Department over the NYC Restaurant Letter Grade System, became more of a mystery.

Reports began coming in over the weekend.  Some said the changes were proposed, and had yet to go before the City Council. Others reported that a deal had been struck. That the NYC Letter Grade System was changed, fines lowered, violations altered.  As conflicting reports flood the web, Mayor Bloomberg gives us his take on it. Mayor Mike, describes those critiquing the system as “pandering to a handful of contributors to election campaigns that say ‘Oh, this is an outrage, my restaurant is perfect’ – yeah, it’s perfect, you can see the rats running around sometimes or the cockroaches.” Ok NOW we’re really confused.

Rada Tarnovsky
Rada Tarnovsky
Rada Tarnovsky is a practicing attorney, who co-founded Letter Grade Consulting to help food service operators comply with regulations set forth by the NYC Department of Health.  Servicing restaurants, hotels, theatres, corporate cafeterias and schools, Letter Grade Consulting provides operators with preemptive solutions, education and training to sustain the highest level of food safety, remain inspection ready and maintain the “A” in the window. Rada can be reached at