Skift Take
Consumers will benefit from easily accessible restaurant health data, as long as the information is always correct and up-to-date.
Starting today, Yelp users across the country will see a new denotation on restaurant business pages when they pull up the app. Listed right underneath a restaurant's price range, consumers will see a "Health Score," followed by the local government's most recent grade given after a health inspection. Click on the score, and a subsequent page in the app will detail how many violations the restaurant had in previous inspections, further descriptions of each violation, and the date when each violation was corrected.
"Today we have added health inspection data to Yelp for more restaurants in New York, California, Texas, Illinois and Washington, DC, and will continue to roll out updates state-by-state in the coming months," Yelp detailed in a blog post announcing the new feature.
The health score aggregation is powered by HDScores.com, a website launched to collect local health department inspection scores and funnel them into a central, easily searchable database. The website has gathered inspection scores from over 1,700 counties covering 42 states
