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Restaurant grades & food recalls, explained.
Radius turns official health-inspection data and FDA & USDA recalls into a plain- English answer to one question: should I eat here?
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How Radius works
Three taps from “what’s this place like?” to a clear answer.
Pick your city
NYC, San Francisco, or Chicago — each with its own official grading system, normalized for you.
Search a restaurant
Find any place by name or browse nearby. Results are sorted cleanest-first.
Get the verdict
A plain-English read on the latest inspection, its violations, and the trend over time.
A plain-English verdict
Not just a letter grade — a one-sentence read on the latest inspection, its violations, and whether they repeat.
Every city, normalized
Letter grades, pass/fail, or 0–100 scores — Radius normalizes each city and always shows the official result.
National recalls, always free
FDA and USDA recalls in one feed, with allergen tags and the official notice. Safety info is never paywalled.
Every city grades differently. We speak all of them.
New York uses letter grades where fewer points is better. Chicago reports Pass or Fail. San Francisco scores 0–100 where higher is better. Radius maps each into one consistent read — and always shows the city’s real, official result.
- Never a fabricated grade — pending stays pending
- Violations translated into plain categories
- Repeat problems flagged across inspections
New York City · lower scores are better
Recalls happening now
Live from the FDA & USDA — updated continuously.
Joy Gourmet Foods Llc.
Class IIJoy Pineapple Lassi 16 oz.
Prime Food Processing Llc.
⚠ Class IDried Herring Fish 7 oz.
Utz Quality Foods, Llc
⚠ Class I1.5oz, 2oz Dirty Brand Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips , Plastic Bag.
Where Radius works
New York City
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens & more
31.2K places tracked
San Francisco
San Francisco & the Bay Area
6.3K places tracked
Chicago
Chicago & Evanston
48.7K places tracked
Coming soon: Seattle, Boston, Austin, Los Angeles. Request your city →
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Radius free?
- Yes. Checking restaurant grades and browsing food recalls is free, and always will be — safety information is never paywalled. The app will add optional paid personalization (alerts, watchlists, saved places), but never gates access to the underlying data.
- Which cities does Radius cover?
- Restaurant inspections are live for New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago today, with more cities on the way. Food recalls are national — they cover the entire United States, no city selection needed.
- Where does Radius get its data?
- Restaurant grades come from each city's official open-data portal (NYC DOHMH, DataSF, and the City of Chicago). Food recalls come from the FDA (packaged foods) and USDA FSIS (meat, poultry, and egg products). Every data page cites its source and links to it.
- How often is the data updated?
- Food recalls refresh continuously (roughly every 15 minutes). Restaurant inspection data is refreshed regularly from each city's dataset, and every page shows the date the record was retrieved.
- Does a good grade mean a restaurant is safe?
- No. A grade is a snapshot of one inspection on one day — a helpful signal, especially alongside the violation history and trend, but not a guarantee about your specific meal. Radius is honest about those limits.
- Are food recalls really free to check?
- Always. Anyone can browse and search every recall, read the full details, and see allergen tags for free. This is core safety information and it is never gated.
- Is Radius affiliated with the health department, FDA, or USDA?
- No. Radius independently surfaces and explains official public data. Grades and recall classifications belong to the agencies; the plain-English summaries are Radius's reading of the official record.
- When does the Radius app launch?
- The app is coming soon to iOS and Android. Join the waitlist above and we'll email you the moment it's available.
Built to be trusted
- Every data page cites its official source and the date it was retrieved.
- We never fabricate a grade — a pending result stays pending.
- The agency's official classification is always shown separately from our plain-English reading.
- Urgent safety info — recalls, violations — is always free.
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