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While there are many effective restaurant guides on the market (Zagat, Michelin etc) informing a hungry public as to where and where not to eat on the basis of cuisine, service, ambiance and other factors, Clean Scores presents a new, scientific option for choosing restaurants, namely on the basis of health-inspection scores! Since health inspection scores are a matter of public record, Clean Scores assimilates that data as well as any other infractions, and transforms them into a searchable database accessible to all.

Currently, Clean Scores is only available in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the future plans for the site involve expanding out to other parts of the United States. If you have a favorite eatery, Clean Scores may make or break its reputation for you with a heavy dose not of mustard or ketchup, but rather of the poly-unsaturated truth! In most cases, inspection history can be traced back for a number of years, which can be a telling testament to the restaurant’s desire to mend its “bad ways.”

Clean Scores also keeps a “best and worst section” that compiles the last three scores of some of the top and bottom-ranked restaurants in addition to a feature called “Sparklines,” which averages the results of the last five inspections and codes them with a numerical value. The top rated restaurants are awarded emblems, which they can proudly display at their entrances, but each emblem is only good for three months at which time the whole process of evaluation starts all over again!

Maybe you should cook dinner at home this week.

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