Yelp adds hygiene scores to restaurant reviews in New York and San Francisco. Yelp this week announced that it will begin including restaurant hygiene scores on listings in select cities, as part of a government-backed effort to increase transparency for consumers and boost promotion for local businesses. As CEO Jeremy Stoppelman explained in a blog post Wednesday, the feature will be available soon for users in San Francisco and New York first, before expanding to other major cities. At the core of Yelp's initiative is an open data standard called "Local Inspector Value-entry Specification," or LIVES. Developed in collaboration with the technology departments of New York and San Francisco — and with "guidance and encouragement" from the Obama administration — LIVES allows local municipalities to import restaurant health scores directly into Yelp's database.
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