▲ Goyang City, ‘Restaurant Hygiene Rating System Designated Business’ incentive support

[Global Economic Times] Goyang Special City announced on the 17th that it will provide incentives to 624 restaurants designated by the hygiene rating system in order to boost their morale and increase the hygiene rating system designation rate.

The city provides incentives by directly delivering five types of hygiene products necessary for restaurant hygiene management, including sterilizing cloth tissues and kitchen utensil cleaners, to businesses. Through this, designated establishments are expected to be able to provide safer meals to customers.

The restaurant hygiene rating system, which has been implemented since May 2017, is a restaurant certification system (designated by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety) implemented nationwide for general restaurants, cafeterias, and bakeries. It is rated as 'very good' after evaluating 44 items in 3 areas. It is a system that gives three levels of hygiene grades: ‘excellent’, ‘excellent’, and ‘good’.

Businesses designated with a hygiene grade are provided with various benefits, including exemption from hygiene inspection within the designated period, provision of hygiene grade signs and incentives, loan support for facility/equipment renovation and repair, and promotional support through posting a list of designated businesses on provincial, city/county websites.

An official from the Food Safety Department said, “We will continue to make efforts to increase the rate of hygiene grade designation in order to promote the safety of citizens’ eating habits,” and added, “We hope that citizens will also use more sanitary grade-designated establishments that have already been verified as hygienic.”

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