Metro Atlanta health scores
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Health score guides
Find a score, understand an inspection and know where to turn next. Eight practical guides to grades, follow-ups, schedules, complaints, food trucks and findings, with official sources beside the answers.
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- Find a score
How to check an Atlanta restaurant’s health score
Start with the exact location and inspection date. Then open the findings and look for a newer result. Here’s how to follow that trail.
Read the guide - Understand the grade
What Georgia’s A, B, C and U inspection grades mean
The letter is a shorthand for the score on a particular inspection. Read it beside the date, the findings and any later results.
Read the guide - Read the findings
How to read a Georgia restaurant inspection report
The score is the starting point. The report’s date, inspection purpose, checkboxes and written notes explain what the inspector recorded.
Read the guide - After a low score
What happens when an Atlanta restaurant fails a health inspection?
A Georgia restaurant that receives a U must get a follow-up inspection within ten days. To understand what happened next, check the later report and any separate enforcement record.
Read the guide - Inspection schedules
How often are Atlanta restaurants inspected?
Georgia’s baseline routine schedule is one, two or three inspections a year, depending on the establishment’s risk category. Its inspection history can change that schedule.
Read the guide - Report a concern
How to report a restaurant health concern in Atlanta
Report a restaurant health concern to the environmental health office for the county where the restaurant is located. Fulton County offers an online complaint form; Georgia DPH lists contacts for other counties.
Read the guide - Food truck records
How to check an Atlanta food truck’s health inspection
Start with the truck’s name and county of origin. A Georgia mobile food-service establishment includes the vehicle and its permitted base of operation, so the place where you buy lunch may not be where its records begin.
Read the guide - What a violation means
Georgia restaurant inspection violations explained
An inspection finding records a specific condition or practice at a particular visit. Read the food, equipment or action described, then the rule cited and any recorded correction.
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