About FastFoodFact
What the health inspector found.
FastFoodFact started with a plain question: which fast-food chains actually do well when the health inspector shows up? The answers online were lists of horror stories and one person's opinion. Meanwhile, cities and states publish every inspection they carry out — nobody had simply grouped those records by chain and shown the result with its sources.
So Eric built it. FastFoodFact is a free, no-account-required way to see how each chain's restaurants did on inspection in a given city or state, next to the figure for every other restaurant in the same place — and to see exactly which records each number came from.
Eric builds free reference sites on public data. He is not a food-safety professional and the site never asks you to take his word for anything: it reports what inspectors recorded, names the dataset, and publishes how restaurant names were matched to chains so mistakes can be found and corrected.
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How it works
Every tool on FastFoodFact is grounded in a documented, citable method — a published formula, an authoritative standard, or a well-established model. We don't approximate or invent numbers. If we can't cite a primary source for the logic, we don't publish the tool.
Here that means government inspection records only — no reviews, surveys or news reports. Chains are compared within one city or state, never across them, because inspection rules differ from place to place; only routine inspections are counted; and every figure carries its number of inspections and a margin of error, so a small difference is never presented as a ranking.
Our commitments
- Free, no sign-up required. Every tool on this site is free to use with no account, subscription, or paywall.
- We show our work. Every tool explains its methodology, cites its sources, and surfaces assumptions — so you can verify the logic, not just trust the output.
- Honest about limitations. Where precision is limited or assumptions are required, we say so. Tools compute; they don't replace professional judgment.
- Kept current. Tools that use figures that can change over time carry a “last reviewed” date and are treated as an ongoing maintenance responsibility, not a one-time build.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or suggestions: hello@fastfoodfact.com. Eric reads every message personally.