Over the next two years, close to 25,000 restaurants in New York City will be posting inspection rating signs on their windows or vestibules.  It is part of a new initiative by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to improve the sanitation of restaurants, the quality of food, and the reduction food-borne illnesses.

Similar to the system used in Los Angeles, New York’s will be based on letters from A through C.  A restaurant with an A rating will be inspected annually, while a B rating garners two inspections during the year, and finally, a restaurant with a C rating will be inspected three times.

Come to think of it, a C-rated restaurant might be as sanitary as an A-rated restaurant because the C restaurant has to go through more inspections during the year, and has to uphold cleanliness three times as often in order to pass inspection.

via New York Times