OWENSBORO, KY (WFIE) -
Wouldn't it be neat to just look in a restaurant window and know its health grade?
In Owensboro, the Green River District Health Department wants to make these health grades as simple as ABC.
Staff at Famous Bistro pride themselves on their food and kitchen, but choose not to display their grade on the door.
"It's not that we're not proud of our grades, but it would look funny for one restaurant to have their grade up and no one else," said Ben Skiadis, manager of Famous Bistro.
The Green River District Board of Health is considering a new policy that will require area restaurants to post a letter grade that corresponds to their health department inspection scores.
"I mean everyone should be concerned how their food is being made," Skiadis said.
Establishments will either get an A, B, or C depending on the percentage scored from a mandatory checklist.
Skiadis thinks the postings will help the public.
"This will give them the advantage of being able to walk past, see a letter grade, A,B, or C and know this is a really clean place. They know what they're doing," Skiadis said.
Green River District Health Department Environmental Director, Clay Horton, says the community wants to know how restaurants are doing.
"What we wanted to do is make it easier for the public to find out about inspections that we do and it's communicating in a consistent, very easy to follow format," Horton said.
Skiadis also thinks the new requirement will hold restaurants more accountable to the public.
"We don't want to lose that. How embarrassing would that be to take an A down and put a B up?" said Skiadis
The board will vote on the score cards June 26th. If passed, the change will take effect in October.
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