How to Look Up a Restaurant's Health Inspection in Any State
There is no national database. Inspection is run state by state, and in half the country it is run county by county below that. Here is how to actually find a record.
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Plain explanations of how restaurant inspection works in the United States, written from the primary sources and updated when they change. No opinion columns, no hot takes.
What Restaurant Inspection Grades and Scores Actually Mean
An A is not an A. A 92 is not a 92. Four different result formats are in use across the country, and none of them travel across a state line intact.
What to Do in the First 48 Hours After a Bad Inspection
The report is not the problem. What you do in the next two days is what determines whether this becomes a footnote or a file.
Want the detail for your state?
Every state and the District of Columbia has its own page with the official lookup, the posting rule and the code the state has adopted.