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Wilkes County Restaurant Grades
Search for a Restaurant
Type in the name of a restaurant to search for its grade, or
click here
to view all restaurants.
About Restaurant Grades
The Food and Drug Administration has determined what types of mistakes people make in preparing food that could lead
to transmitting disease. Restaurant inspections are based on those risks. Here are a few examples:
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cutting raw meat on the same cutting board as the salad without cleaning the board first can pass germs that would be
killed while cooking the chicken but won't be killed on uncooked salad
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Employees must be able to wash and dry their hands after using the restroom or handling raw meat or garbage. If the
supplies (soap, paper towels) are not there, the employees are probably not washing their hands and could spread
disease
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If foods are not kept at low temperatures for storage or high temperatures for serving, germs can grow on them very
rapidly
General dirt and grime may take off a point or two, but the low scores come from problems that could allow disease-causing
germs to get into the public's food.
Public Health has moved away from blue A cards, green B cards and red C cards to a black and white card with the grade AND score written
in 1 1/2 inch size. This is so that people who want to see only the grade can still see it, but those who want to know more specifically what
the grade is can also see it without having to squint. The number grade is just larger and the letter grade is moved over. The inspections are
no different.
The North Carolina Rules Governing The Sanitation of Restaurants And Other Foodhandling Establishments
provide for a numerical value to be assigned to establishments as a result of quarterly inspection. These values have
a corresponding letter grade. As stated in section .2606 of these rules, "(a) The sanitation grading of all restaurants, food
stands, and drink stands, shall be based on a system of scoring as follows:
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Percentage
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Grade
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90% or higher
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A
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80-89% or higher
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B
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70-79% or higher
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C
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less than 70%
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Revocation of Permit
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Establishments receiving less than a grade of 90 may request a reinspection to be conducted no less than
15 calendar days from the date of request. Inspections from the week before are updated online every Friday;
therefore, restaurant grades online may not show the same grade that is posted at the restaurant for a few days.
It may take 3 weeks to add new or seasonal restaurants opening to the website.
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