Food cart sanitary violations
Borough | Violations Per Inspection |
Manhattan | 1.17 |
Brooklyn | 1.11 |
Queens | 1.09 |
Staten Island | 1 |
Bronx | 0.82 |
Most common violation? 779 citations for food kept at the wrong temperature, and (yecch) 372 violations for vendors who failed to wear a hat or net to keep hair from falling into the food, according to a recent survey of Dept. of Health citations. State and city officials have ordered food carts to post cleanliness “letter grades” like those on city restaurants, sometime next year.