Is Your Favorite Restaurant Hygienic? There’s a New App for That
Photo Caption: HDScores' new app provides detailed information on a restaurant's history of health scores.
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Do consumers care enough about proper hygiene in restaurants that they'd be willing to pay to track it on a regular basis? HDScores is betting on it.
HDScores, a seven-year-old restaurant tech startup that is known for powering Yelp's restaurant hygiene scores, has launched its own subscription-based app displaying extensive health code information for a variety of businesses, including restaurants and coffee shops, across multiple regions of the U.S.
The app costs $1.99 per month or $11.99 for a full-year subscription. Users gain access to the business' health code score as determined by HDScores, as well as the local health department's score (government methods for scoring can vary per city and state) and a historical rundown of past scores and violations that the business may have incurred.
The company believes that restaurants should be held to a high level of accountability when it comes to providing a safe, clean environment to consume food, and in order to do that, public health code data should be much more digitally accessible to consumers.
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