COMO Health Inspections
Mar 7, 2008 general food, restaurants
The Missourian, Columbia’s local newspaper, published a piece yesterday on how the incidence of health-code violations is higher among ethnic restaurants.
Rather than just going after the low-blow by saying results are due to the standards of cleanliness not being as high in the countries from which the owners and workers originate, they spoke to one health inspector, Gerry Worley, who had a different take.
Worley thinks the reason for the higher number of violations is simple. He thinks the high numbers can be attributed to one thing: locally owned ethnic restaurants prepare their food from scratch.
Because of this, Worley said, “There’s just more opportunities for us, when we inspect them, to find something that’s not recommended or would be illustrated as a violation of food code and mark it as such.”
I think that’s a really interesting point and the article also says that “when local nonethnic restaurants are separated from the chains, they fare about the same in critical violations but have slightly fewer noncritical violations.”
Tags: Columbia, ethnic restaurants
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