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nycdigital: The New York Times just launched a restaurant inspections map using NYC Open Data. New York Health Department Restaurant Ratings Map The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene performs unannounced sanitary inspections of every restaurant at least once per year. Violation points result in a letter grade, which can be explored in the map below, along with violation descriptions. The information on this map will be updated periodically. For menus and reviews by New York Times critics, visit our restaurants guide. -Jeremy White, The New York Times

nycdigital:

The New York Times just launched a restaurant inspections map using NYC Open Data.


New York Health Department Restaurant Ratings Map

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene performs unannounced sanitary inspections of every restaurant at least once per year. Violation points result in a letter grade, which can be explored in the map below, along with violation descriptions. The information on this map will be updated periodically. For menus and reviews by New York Times critics, visit our restaurants guide.

-Jeremy White, The New York Times

(via nycopendata)

smarterplanet: Alfred App Gives Personalized Restaurant Recommendations | AllThingsD It’s a merger of two of the trendiest start-up topics in the new iPhone app Alfred: restaurant recommendations and data mining. Alfred, built by the Stanford PhD-led team at Clever Sense, aims to learn what types of restaurants and bars a user will like based on comparing a few of their inputted favorites to analysis of existing reviews from around the Web. Clever Sense CEO Babak Pahlavan says he’s hoping for a “Rosie from ‘The Jetsons’” type experience, or perhaps “Pandora for the real world.” The premise is “Teach it what you like, then put it on cruise control.” Alfred is all recommendations and no direct search, so users will have to be in a sort of lean-back and explore mode to enjoy the experience. What seems most useful is that you could teach the app about your local favorites and then get personalized recommendations when you travel to a new city.

smarterplanet:

Alfred App Gives Personalized Restaurant Recommendations | AllThingsD

It’s a merger of two of the trendiest start-up topics in the new iPhone app Alfred: restaurant recommendations and data mining.

Alfred, built by the Stanford PhD-led team at Clever Sense, aims to learn what types of restaurants and bars a user will like based on comparing a few of their inputted favorites to analysis of existing reviews from around the Web.

Clever Sense CEO Babak Pahlavan says he’s hoping for a “Rosie from ‘The Jetsons’” type experience, or perhaps “Pandora for the real world.” The premise is “Teach it what you like, then put it on cruise control.”

Alfred is all recommendations and no direct search, so users will have to be in a sort of lean-back and explore mode to enjoy the experience. What seems most useful is that you could teach the app about your local favorites and then get personalized recommendations when you travel to a new city.

inspiredbyiceland: Sægreifinn, a seafood restaurant by the Reykjavík harbour redefines the meaning of homely.  misslexia: Fish joint, Reykjavik harbour 

inspiredbyiceland:

Sægreifinn, a seafood restaurant by the Reykjavík harbour redefines the meaning of homely. 

misslexia:

Fish joint, Reykjavik harbour 

Tales of a confectionist: Delissio restaurant and bar

talesofaconfectionist:

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Sometimes you just need to get away from work and go out with good company for some good food. Delissio restaurant and bar in Curtin is tucked away in quiet suburbia and it was only serendipitous that I found this place years ago when my friend got lost and we happen to drive…

chefsgirl: Stanley's Restaurant

chefsgirl:

Stanley’s is a casual dining restaurant that branched off of Chef Boswell’s very own, Stella!. They serve good ol’ New Orleans comfort food and are best known for their delicious brunch menu. It’s located in Jackson’s Square and has a beautiful view of the St. Louis Cathedral. Since I discovered…

Racism in the Restaurant Industry, Featuring the Capital Grille

joeyquits:

Note: I’ve mostly been posting about hotels, but I’m beginning to expand to include other parts of the service industry—such as restaurants and casinos—where workers face exactly the same issues as in hotels.

Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) released a damning report earlier this year on the treatment of people of color in the restaurant industry. Their results are exactly what you’d expect, but still shocking in how clear and extreme they are.

That’s right, ROC surveyed some 4000 workers across 8 US cities and found that black workers make more than $4/hr less than white workers

They also found that blacks are for more likely to work in fast food places than in fancy restaurants:

In fine dining restaurants, people of color are wildly more likely to hold lower-wage back-of-the-house and server-assistant positions such as busser, barback, etc. People of color are almost totally barred from the more lucrative server, maitre’d, and captain positions:

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