Jasmine Deli skating on thin ice

• This is directly from the CDC website: "We estimate that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year." The reality of the restaurant business is that food born illness occurs regularly. But it happens at home even more. All that public safety officials can do (and what most restauranteurs want) is to minimize that possibility as much as possible. To say the opposite is ridiculous since insurance policies are mandatory to cover negligent situations which occur. Conditions arise and often times these are not foreseeable. Not too many restaurants own the buildings that they do business in. There are far more variables to it than that as well. The bottom line is, food wherever its prepared presents inherent risks affecting ones health and safety. Its crazy to think that Jasmine Deli (which has been in business for a long time!) would shirk their interests as well as the public's for a healthy product and environment. I definitely give them the benefit of the doubt and will eat there as I always have...with a confident and satisfied smile on my face.

• Have you ever worked in the food industry Jessica Chapman? I've been going to Jasmine Deli for many years and I can't imagine the owners or management would intentionally try to harm any of their customers. I've worked in other restaurants even popular franchises and I've seen management do their best to keep rodents out but It is inevitable. How perfect is your Kitchen? They may have "failed to maintain a system" at the time but I have high hopes that they'll get back up into shape, I still eat there and everything is just as great as it started.

• I love what LA does, requiring restaurants to post their inspection grade in a big letter on the front of the shop. You don't eat any place that gets a B.

• When I lived in New York (many many years ago), the NYC newspapers (see?) used to post the results of food inspections. If I recall correctly, it was a letter grade (and maybe the reason if they got an F). But it was helpful to see which restaurants were falling down on the job -- and probably would be even more useful in a place like the Twin Cities, which is much smaller than New York City. I would love to be able to see the reports on restaurants around town.

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