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Restaurant inspection grades get tossed over typos

Some restaurants kept to keep their A grades

Photo credit: Getty | Some restaurants kept to keep their A grades thanks to botched paperwork

When it comes to restaurant grades, not all A’s are created equal.

Dozens of eateries had all of their health inspection violations tossed because of botched paperwork, automatically giving them an A and saving them thousands in fines, according to an amNewYork analysis of health tribunal hearings between July 2010, when the letter grading system began, and September 2011.

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