About Know Before You Go

Know Before You Go makes Mecklenburg County health inspection results easy to search on any device: restaurants, food trucks and stands, school cafeterias, hospitals, nursing homes, child care centers, pools, tattoo studios, hotels and more.

Where the data comes from

All scores, grades and violations come from the Mecklenburg County Public Health – Environmental Health public inspection portal. We check for new inspections every night. Results can lag the county's own records by a day or more, and older inspections are still being imported, so some show “details not yet loaded”.

How scores work

• Food service (restaurants, food trucks, stands, school lunchrooms, meat markets…): 100-point scale with letter grades: A 90–100, B 80–89.5, C 70–79.5.
• Hospitals, nursing homes, school buildings, lodging: 100-point scale, no letter grade.
• Child care, residential care, pools & spas, jails: scored in demerits; lower is better.
• Tattoo artists: inspected, no numeric score published.

Disclaimer

This is an independent site and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Mecklenburg County or the State of North Carolina. An inspection reflects conditions on the day of the inspection only. For the official record, always use the county portal.