Four out of five food-serving establishments in town received mediocre “Fair” ratings from Darien Health Department inspectors, with a new one getting a “Good” rating and an almost perfect score, according to the most recently released inspection reports.
How the ratings system and scores work
This certificate from the Darien Health Department shows the town rating and is supposed to be posted by every food-serving estabilshment.
Restaurants in town are rated under the Darien Health Department’s own Good/Fair/Poor ratings system. Health inspectors also use the state health code regulations to score restaurants, with a perfect score set at 100, and deductions for various code violations.
The Darien system takes into account problems that are ongoing or that have been fixed, so a restaurant scoring higher than others on the state scale may actually get a lower score on the Darien scale, or vice versa.
You can find the past several inspection ratings under the Darien ratings system for food-serving establishments on this website.
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See also:
- Our previous article listing restaurant inspection ratings (Nov. 12)
- Taco Bell Opens at Interstate 95 South Rest Stop in Darien (Nov. 18)
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Any establishment actually deemed unsafe can be closed by the town Health Department until violations are fixed. Darien Health Director David Knauf says that has never happened in the time he’s been with the department.
(In the list of health inspection results, below, information is listed by name, address, Darien rating, state score; for restaurants rated “poor,” additional information is given: inspector’s comments that led to the state rating and additional remarks on the inspection report [information within brackets has been added for clarity by Darienite.com; semicolons like this (“;”) separate individual comments, each one with a particular violation that triggers a point deduction from a perfect state score of 100 points; Darienite.com will change abbreviations, punctuation and other grammar to fit our editorial style, usually silently if there is no change in meaning].)
Here’s an alphabetical list of the most recently released results of Darien health inspections:
- Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant — 54 Post Road — Nov. 9 — FAIR — 92
- Convent of St. Brigita — 4 Runkenhage Road — Nov. 16 — FAIR — 96
- Planet Pizza — 882 Post Road — Nov. 17 — FAIR — 90
- Post Corner Pizza — 847 Post Road — Nov. 13 — FAIR — 87
- Taco Bell — Darien South Rest Stop on Interstate 95 — Nov. 17 — GOOD — 98
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