How to easily search health inspection results for Philly restaurants

When it comes to health inspections, the City of Philadelphia does not rank restaurants by grade, the way that, say, New York City does.

Philadelphia City Paper, along with (the now-defunct) AxisPhilly, took it upon themselves to do so. They used the city’s health inspection data to create their own ranking system for the city’s 3,800 restaurants. They also built a searchable database of health inspection results.

Read more about why City Paper did this project here.

It’s not dissimilar to the work of a Maryland startup that’s rolling out searchable health inspections nationwide. HDScores launched in October with data from over 800 jurisdictions.

It covers all of Pennsylvania and has data from the City of Philadelphia.

Near Technical.ly HQ on the HDScores app.