Restaurants often post a menu in their front window to show potential diners what's cooking in their kitchen. In Hartford, a city ordinance now requires them to show how clean and orderly they keep that kitchen. Check the restaurant's window next time for a posted notice with a letter grade from the restaurant's most recent health inspection.

A city council committee was told Monday that Dallas has all of 15 sanitarians on hand -- eight fewer than in 2007. The boom in food trucks and seasonal feeder programs, whatever those are, has resulted in a 300 per cent increase in the number of locations requiring inspection since 2009.

On a cloudy afternoon in September, Chicago health inspector Charity Okoro arrived at Taste of Peru and began pointing out problems.

Plano, Texas will become the first city in the state to offer a Quick Response, or QR, code on the restaurant’s publicly-displayed permit. In the report, above, by CBS 11′s JD Miles, the owner of the Bavarian Grill got it right when he said something approaching, I’ve been in business 18 years, all As with one B. I want to promote that.