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How the BiteKarma score works
Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.
At a glance
- Passed 5 of 6 graded inspections since 2023.
- Last inspected Mar 9, 2026: passed with 8 violations, 1 critical. That was a follow-up after failing on Feb 19, 2026.
- Keeps coming up: Proper cold holding temperatures, cited 3 times, plus 14 other repeat issues.
- #1 in Madison's Hall of Shame, among the lowest BiteKarma scores in the city.
- 4 critical violations in the last two years.
Inspection history 6 visits
- 2026
- Passed Mar 9
Followup
8 violations, 1 critical
- Critical Proper cold holding temperatures
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Posted: permit/inspection/choking poster/handwashing
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
- Failed Feb 19
Routine
25 violations, 3 critical
- Critical Food separated and protected
- Critical Proper cold holding temperatures
- Critical Proper disposition of returned, previously served, reconditioned, and unsafe food
- Minor Insects, rodents, and animals not present
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Food properly labeled; original container
- Minor Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage, display
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor Food properly labeled; original container
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Utensils, equipment and linens: properly stored, dried, handled
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
- Minor Food stored covered
- Minor Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
- Minor Washing fruits and vegetables
- Minor Proper date marking and disposition
- Minor In-use utensils: properly stored
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Single-use/single-service articles: properly stored, used
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Wiping cloths: properly used and stored
- 2025
- Passed Mar 25
Routine
20 violations
- Minor Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Proper cooling methods used: adequate equipment for temperature control
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Food stored covered
- Minor Thermometers provided and accurate
- Minor Utensils, equipment and linens: properly stored, dried, handled
- Minor Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage, display
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor In-use utensils: properly stored
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Single-use/single-service articles: properly stored, used
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
- 2024
- Passed May 28
Followup
8 violations
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces clean
- Minor Food and nonfood-contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed, and used
- Minor Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage, display
- Minor Certified food protection manager
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
- Minor Food properly labeled; original container
- Minor Posted: permit/inspection/choking poster/handwashing
Nearby
BiteKarma scores around Happy China Restaurant, which is the dark pin. Zoom in to see the dots' scores, and tap a pin marked + to see everything at that address.