Web Watch tries to follow a strict rule of thumb when it comes to restaurants that we’ll frequent: we prefer restaurants with a relatively high health score.
For states that follow letter grades, nothing below an “A”.
For states that follow a numeric scale from 0-100, nothing below a “90”.
We know health inspectors and restaurant owners. We’ve read the restaurant report cards. We know that the end-resulting score is a negotiation up, rather than a negotiation down. In other words, if the score is a “81”, you have to wonder what the original score was before the inspector and the restaurant owner came to various agreements over the validity of certain infractions. To us, that “81” is really a “75”. And Web Watch refuses to eat at a place where cleanliness is just average.
