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The wait is over. In the "awards the city makes up just because" news, the Department of Health has finally announced the winners of their Golden Apple Awards - their food safety awards! Newsday broke it down, with the Golden Applees including a Dunkin' Donuts in Flushing, Winchesters Pub in Bellerose, Carifesta Restaurant in the Bronx, a Blimpie in the Bronx, the Churrascaria Plataforma in Midtown, the Post House on East 63rd, Juice Generation on West 72nd Street, McDonald's on Bowery and the Executive Conference Center on East 53rd. So there are nine really clean restaurants of varying price points in the city - thanks, DoH! And if you were wondering what it would take to win a Golden Apple, wonder no more. The Department of Health says:
To become eligible for a Golden Apple, a food service establishment must not have any critical violations and have four or fewer general violations (totaling no more than eight 'points') during their past two annual inspections; the manager or a supervisor must have satisfactorily completed DOHMH's Quality Improvement Food Protection Course or implemented a quality improvement plan that has been in place for 12 months prior; and the FSE must demonstrate that it has implemented and actively maintains a quality assurance program.These establishments will now get a Golden Apple sticker to proudly display in their window. Sure beats an awesome review in the Times or Zagat!
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I've added this to my "Big Apple" site. Do the bad places get a wormy apple?
So if I walk into a Golden Apple rated eatery and found that somebody mixed rat droppings with my brown rice, do they still get to keep the prize?
Wait a freakin minute. Which Dunkin Donuts in Flushing did they give that Golden Apple to? The one near Queens College???
I remember that place had rats sniffing around the bottom crates.
Yea, if its that D&D by Queens College... well this Golden Apple is a Golden Load of Crap because that place is gross
What I want to know is, does this mean that all of the other restaurants in the city didn't meet the requirements? Because I'm clearly never eating out again if that's the case.
It seems like the restaurant staff needs to have complied with some other things that DOH wanted, besides passing the standard cleanliness inspections.
I look up restaurant health code violations on the DOH website all the time. After I got food poisoning from a deli once, I learned they didn't keep their food at the proper temperatures. I look up supermarket health code violations too. A shocking number of the supermarkets and restaurants in this city do not meet basic food saftey requirements.
if you want to see how a particular restaurant did on their inspection, you can look it up the DOH website. it's probably the most addictive city web tool there is
What strikes me is that fast food restaurants got this award, even though their products are mass-produced, completely unhealthy, pesticide-laden, antibiotic and hormone-infused garbage.
Not to mention the occasional e.coli and human body parts.