Check Out Restaurants Before You Eat

The St. Charles County Department of Community Health and Environment has placed a QR code, quick-scan tag on its 2012 food service certification licenses. Customers with smart phones and a scan application can see a restaurant’s recent health ratings by scanning the tag with their smart phone.

The certificates are placed in visible areas such as front doors, drive-through windows or near checkouts.

Public Information Officer Doug Bolnick said, “We’ve had lots of success with it. You see a lot of people using them in restaurants.”

However, Bolnick said not all restaurants will have the scanner tags. Some restaurants have not been inspected since the county started putting the tags on the licenses.

“We only started putting them on midway through last year,” he said.

For more information on restaurant inspection scores, see the county Health Department’s “Know the Score” website.