Questions (FAQ)

Are licenses given to businesses, or restaurants (hotels)? If a business owns two restaurants (from the same chain), do they need one license per restaurant? (Yielding a license per restaurant). Or would they get a license per business?\

What is the location address? Is it the address of the restaurant location for which the license was given? (see above). Or is it the address for the businesses offices/headquarters/address used for incorporating, etc?

How do the violation categories and levels work? How do they determine the count? How do the “risk factor” and “primary concern” work? Does the risk and primary concern have some kind of weight in the final count?

Would inspectors find value in using an application that displays the results of the API in some User Interface (Maps, Charts, patterns)? Or is it all obvious to them and there’s no need for them to verify these results?

Are citizens interested in this data, or a search/discoverability feature? At what granularity? (data for a single restaurant, or data for the whole city/county? statistics?)

Would restaurant/owners/franchisees be interested in this data? At which granularity?

For questions 4-6, we’re basically trying to find a target audience for the data. Maybe it is all 3 of them, or maybe it isn’t. We might add hotel inspections data to the results in the future, so the question applies for these as well.

Seen multiple sources for violations descriptions after 2009/2013. Which one should we use: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/documents/foodviolations2009fc.pdf or http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/inspections/FoodHighPriority.html ?

For links: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/inspections/FoodHighPriority.html http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/inspections/FoodIntermediate.html http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/inspections/FoodBasic.html

, some violations are shown as in multiple “violation levels”. How do we determine which “violation level” is the appropriate for a specific violation if the same violation is shown as both intermediate and high priority? Same applies to basic.. Sometimes a violation is shown in all three description urls above. Is there any info whatsoever on actual businesses? Or is all the location info, county number, etc related specifically to a “license”? (trying to figure out if we should remove the concept of businesses, and just use one for a license). This is related to questions #1 and #2