Restaurant hygiene scores have become a success story of public disclosure of government inspections. Disclosing hygiene scores has the potential to be a powerful market mechanism that can help consumers make better decisions while also creating incentives for restaurants to improve their performance. Yet in most cities, hygiene scores go unnoticed on government websites with no standardized format across cities. This paper documents the design and implementation of an initiative to digitize hygiene score disclosure and analyzed its impact on consumer demand and restaurant hygiene performance. The initiative aims at increasing awareness of hygiene by leveraging digital platforms where consumers are already looking for restaurant information.

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数字化披露：餐厅卫生评分案例

餐厅卫生评分已成为公开披露政府检查的成功案例。披露卫生评分有可能成为一种强大的市场机制，可以帮助消费者做出更好的决策，同时也可以激励餐厅提高业绩。然而，在大多数城市，卫生评分在政府网站上并没有被注意到，而且没有跨城市的标准化格式。本文记录了一项将卫生评分披露数字化的计划的设计和实施，并分析了其对消费者需求和餐厅卫生绩效的影响。该计划旨在通过利用消费者已经在寻找餐厅信息的数字平台来提高卫生意识。