Detroit City Council Rejects Forcing Restaurants To Post Health Grades

DETROIT — Detroit City Council rejected a proposal that would have forced restaurants to place health inspection grades in their windows in a 6-3 Tuesday vote.

The plan called for restaurants to place one of four color-coded display cards in their window, indicating the restaurant's status.

A green card would mean they passed their last health inspection. Yellow would mean they are in the enforcement process and would remain so until completed. Red would mean the health department shut the restaurant down.

The proposed plan, which Councilman Scott Benson has been pushing for three years, would have been overseen by the Detroit Public Health Department.

"While today was a setback, it's not the end," Benson said. "So what we'll do, we'll go back and look and see how we can get something like this through, and something my colleagues will support, at least five of them."

The vote comes after a Detroit Coney Island was temporarily forced to shut down after videos posted to social media showed rats crawling in the restaurant.