Letter grades for food carts

From the NY Post:

A Queens lawmaker has drafted a bill that would mandate posted letter health grades for street-meat sellers.

State Sen. José Peralta (D-Queens) is introducing a measure this week that would require local health departments to come up with a letter-based scale similar to the city’s current restaurant-grading system, following a Post report on the worst of the wurst violators.

“Consumers should know if what they are eating meets certain safety standards,” he said. “If they have an ‘A,’ you’ll eat there. If they have a ‘C,’ maybe not.”

At present, patrons have no way of knowing whether the dirty-water dog they’re about to digest actually deserves the sobriquet. The city Health Department does not publish online inspection results, let alone grades.

Right, but we learned recently that the ones who get bad grades can get them changed to good grades after a hearing. So grading doesn't really tell us anything about the sanitation standards of the vendor.