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Grade A Food excellence awards

This award is designed to recognize those facilities that take the initiative to go above and beyond health code requirements to excel in sanitation and food safety.

The Health Department recognizes that excellence is most fully achieved when the food service management fully endorses employee education and training.

Therefore, the Grade A Food Excellence Award will be awarded in 2014 to those operations that have exhibited excellence in sanitation and food safety as well as evidence of successful employee education throughout 2013.

Criteria for food service establishments to earn a Grade A Food Excellence Award:

1. The establishment must be in compliance with the food handler requirements throughout the 2012 calendar year.
2. High risk facilities cannot have any more than 3 critical violations, medium risk facilities cannot have any more than 2 critical violations, and low risk facilities cannot have any critical violations in the current calendar year.
3. All critical violations must have been corrected on site.
4. High risk facilities cannot have any more than 9 non-critical violations, medium risk facilities cannot have any more than 6 non-critical violations, and low risk facilities cannot have any more than one non-critical violations in the current calendar year.
5. No violations may be repeat violations from current calendar year.
6. Establishment must have a valid Kansas City, Mo., Food Service Permit and be in good standing with the City of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department.
7. Establishment was not identified as a source of Food borne illness within the last year.

Any operation that meets the above criteria within the jurisdiction of the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department shall be considered for the Grade A Food Excellence Award granted by the Health Department.

The Food Protection Program staff shall review qualified establishments and, based upon the criteria, make recommendations for the award to the Director of Health.

Recipients of the Grade A Food Excellence Award will receive a certificate for posting to inform the public of their achievement.

Current winners (selected in 2013 based on 2012 cumulative inspection reports)

Find establishments recognized in 2013 on the map below or on the following table. If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact us.
 

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