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Local health dept. restaurant inspection failure rate

weekly percent of restaurant inspections resulting in closure/critical violation by city

Feed detail
Measures
weekly percent of restaurant inspections resulting in closure/critical violation by city
Source
Municipal open-data portals (e.g. NYC DOHMH, LA County eHealth, Chicago food inspections API)
Access
json-api
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Rising critical-violation rates track labor turnover/understaffing stress in food service, a leading indicator of local restaurant-sector distress
Maps to
local restaurant/hospitality employment and revenue trend
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

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