{"id":6571,"date":"2011-07-10T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2011-07-10T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:58:58","slug":"thinking_twice_about_c-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/thinking_twice_about_c-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Twice About C-Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, you might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2011\/07\/10\/2011-07-10_top_chef_marcus_samuelssons_harlem_restaurant_red_rooster_gets_crating_but_custo.html\">believe what you want to believe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If this is a C, then how do dirty jerk chicken joints in Flatbush get A&#8217;s? This place has a brand-new kitchen. I&#8217;ve seen it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then again, it&#8217;s a little different when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2011\/07\/10\/2011-07-10_new_york_restaurants_with_cletter_grading_say_business_is_hurting_from_low_city_.html\">sushi restaurants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At [a sushi place] in Whitestone, Queens, [the manager] said the spot&#8217;s C rating hasn&#8217;t hurt business.<\/p>\n<p>But the grade was posted in a place where no customer could reasonably see it last week. [The manager] moved it to a more visible spot during an interview with a reporter, then later removed it from the window.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The grade has not hurt us at all,&#8221; said [the manager], who said the restaurant spent $20,000 to fix problems that he claimed were unrelated to the food served.<\/p>\n<p>[A passerby], 34, understood why the sushi joint was embarrassed by the grade.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, you might believe what you want to believe: &#8220;If this is a C, then how do dirty jerk chicken joints in Flatbush get A&#8217;s? This place has a brand-new kitchen. I&#8217;ve seen it.&#8221; Then again, it&#8217;s a little different when it comes to sushi restaurants: At [a sushi place] in Whitestone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}