{"id":331957,"date":"2026-08-28T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331957\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:34:26","slug":"nyc-restaurants-ordered-closed-august-21-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331957\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed August 21 &#8211; 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Every year, inspectors arrive unannounced at more than 25,000 restaurants to examine health and safety standards. Most eateries pass inspections, but some fall short of the city&#8217;s standards, accruing violation <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/doh\/downloads\/pdf\/rii\/restaurant-grading-faq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">points<\/a> for everything from broken light bulbs to &#8220;public health hazards,&#8221; like vermin and failure to follow food safety protocols. <\/p>\n<p> Restaurants hit with non-food-safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2010\/03\/marc_murphy_is_still_rather_wo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">violations<\/a> might get a fine or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/doh\/downloads\/pdf\/rii\/restaurant-grading-faq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lower letter grade<\/a>, with zero to 13 points warranting an &#8216;A&#8217; and violations totaling 28 points or more earning a &#8216;C&#8217; (this system is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2020\/03\/why-chefs-are-terrified-of-the-nyc-health-department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">criticized<\/a> for its efficacy by some gourmands). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, inspectors arrive unannounced at more than 25,000 restaurants to examine health and safety standards. Most eateries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-331957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}