San Francisco commercial kitchen compliance

The City and County of San Francisco (CA) operates a Green/Yellow/Red color-coded placard program enforced under the California Retail Food Code by the San Francisco Department of Public Health Environmental Health Branch. Placard determination is driven by the count of major violations observed during inspection. Green = PASS (zero to one major violation observed; any major was corrected at the time of the inspection). Yellow = CONDITIONAL PASS (two or more major violations observed and corrected at the time of inspection; reinspection scheduled and a new placard issued based on results). Red = CLOSED (health hazards or major violations that cannot be fixed right away; facility closed). San Francisco does not publish a public-facing numeric score; placard color is the sole public display. Historical context: SF previously published a 1-100 public numeric score via the LIVES (Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification) open-data feed integrated with DataSF and Yelp, launched 2013. The numeric score was deprecated in 2021 and no longer appears anywhere on public-facing SFDPH or SF.gov pages. San Francisco is the only major CA placard county to have published a public numeric score and then explicitly dropped it; other placard counties (Alameda, Marin, Sonoma, San Mateo, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, Butte) never published public numeric scores. Santa Clara is the contrasting exception that still publishes both placard and 0-100 score via SCCDineOut. Internal High/Moderate/Low risk classification is maintained for inspection scheduling but is not public-facing. Approximately 7,000 retail food facilities are permitted within the consolidated city-county jurisdiction.