“C” Something, Say Something

Between grade inflation, improbable scores, restaurateurs ignoring dumb rules and now other restaurateurs apparently can have a letter grade changed without the fuss of a hearing. Perhaps the restaurant letter grade system is less useful than this administration’s Simplicists believed:

One of the city’s highest-end restaurants won’t have to post a dreaded “grade pending” sign next to its three-star Michelin rating thanks to a well-placed call to the Health Department.

Officials downgraded violations issued on Jan. 31 to Per Se, a big-bucks temple of the culinary arts in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, so that it could post the top sanitary grade of “A” even though an inspector slapped the eatery with a “B.”