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Food establishments in Orange County receive high safety inspection scores - The Daily Tar Heel http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/04/food-inspections-416[4/17/2018 11:21:51 AM] Restaurants can get point deductions for seemingly small offenses. BSki's manager Medo Ghon said the restaurant, which has a score of 98.5, got points deducted on its last inspection because he was drinking coffee from a cup without a lid. The rules for hand-washing are equally intricate. Hudson said there are five different kinds of hand- washing violations, such as turning a faucet off without a paper towel. Restaurants given a B rating or below can request to be re-inspected within 15 days. Hudson said many violations are corrected during inspection. North Carolina requires all restaurants have a certified food safety manager in the facility when food is being prepared and served. Orange County encourages restaurants to get certified through the ServSafe program. Martin said ServSafe is part of the reason why the restaurant has had a score of 100 since it opened three years ago. The health department does not tell restaurants when an inspector will come for an evaluation. Though Martin can guess when Trolly Stop will receive an inspection, he said their preparation doesn’t change. “We keep things as clean and neat as possible,” Martin said. “Every one of the employees eats here, so we want the same thing, the same environment. We do everything by the books, and honestly it’s fairly easy.” Even though Orange County restaurants have overwhelmingly positive health inspection scores, Hudson encourages customers to evaluate the numerical score, not just the letter grade, when deciding where to eat. “I don’t think people use the grade card the way I want them to,” Hudson said. “Look at the number. The grade, it’s somewhat relative to what the score is and how much prep there is.” @maringwolf city@dailytarheel.com