Ward 3 D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh has introduced legislation that might make you think twice before entering a restaurant, eatery, or other establishment that sells food. The Democrat from Forest Hills would like D.C. restaurants to display letter grades based on a Department of Health inspection and other health-safety assessments. “Posting health grades gives consumers [...]
For those trying to navigate the delicate terrain of food identity politics, a new phrase seems to be popping up on the turf once dominated by vegetarians and vegans. When the group Farm Sanctuary praised the D.C. City Council last week for its Healthy Schools Act, the so-called "farm-animal protection organization" celebrated the law for [...]
Mary Cheh's proposal to implement an L.A.-style system to grade D.C. restaurants on their cleanliness has not been received well by the folks over at the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington. If I were to grade RAMW's rhetoric in the release it just sent, I'd give the prose an "A"—for its righteously "angry" tone: The legislation [...]
Los Angeles has 'em. So does St. Louis, San Francisco, and the whole state of North Carolina. Is the District next? We're talking letter grades here, specifically as applied to the cleanliness of restaurants, markets, taverns, and other establishments slinging comestibles. Anyone who's been to L.A. has seen a big block "A," "B," or even [...]
