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This is the latest app that’s risen to the top 20 in Australia.
It geolocates restaurants on the NSW Food Authority’s Name and Shame List.

Before you stroll in the door, investigate the cleanliness of the joint first! 
Here are a few scary stories from around the country that make for light blogging entertainment. The most common crime is vermin and cockroaches.

Just found in AAP Newswire “A NSW noodle shop that served up a dish with a side of cockroach is one of 28 food outlets named and shamed this week for poor health and safety practices.
Delicious Noodle in Taree was issued with three fines for offences including selling food with a cockroach in it and having the live and dead insects in the premises.
Bankstown Bakehouse was also fined for selling a loaf of bread with a cockroach embedded in one slice.”

Ewww!!!!And on the other side there has been a lot of hubbub made over a café in Newtown selling soymilk with high iodine content.

This place too joined the blacklist. On the premises that the milk they were selling would lead to thyroid problems.

Woah, I wouldn’t want to be the employee who had failed to throw out the boxes.

–But if you think of it this way what spectacular advertising. I bet their diehard fans have remained loyal and a number of Name and Shame tourists have come around just to check it out. I’m glad to see the authorities are meticulous.  But I’d be shaking in my boots if I was a café/restaurant owner at the moment.

Any idea on how the registrations are for food safety and handling courses? I bet they’ve gone skyhigh. You wouldn’t want to be too careful in this climate.

If you’re interested, this place does a good job for food safety and handling certification, http://www.hostec.com

And after these horror stories, for both customers and restaurant owners, this cert. is a definite must have!Imagine all those iPhone owners lurking around. The hall of shame stays valid for 12 months!

Check out the app’s ‘killer’ key features:

•    Map View – pan and zoom around a map of nearby penalised restaurants.
•    Search View – search for any restaurant or cafe.
•    Nearby View – see a list of nearby penalised restaurants.
•    See failed restaurants or all restaurants including scores.

Both businesses have been added to the NSW Food Authority’s name and shame list.Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan said businesses had to face the consequences of their actions.

“There is no doubt finding a cockroach in food you have paid good money for would be upsetting to say the least,” Mr Whan said in a statement.”Incidents like these are the very reason the NSW government provides consumers with such information, so they can make informed decisions about where to eat.”

The Minister for Primary Industries, Steve Whan, said the government had to make an example of the breach to show ”we do not tolerate businesses that breach food safety and put the health of NSW consumers at risk”.The name and shame website lists 1827 penalty notices, including 152 issued in the past month. A further 23 businesses, including Luxe, will be added today for offences including grease build-up, live cockroaches and no hand-washing facilities.

Food outlets will soon be urged to display their health and safety credentials on their doors with a simple A, B, C system of scoring.The scheme, which exists in Los Angeles and Singapore, will be trialled in 12 NSW councils from July and will be introduced statewide next year.

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