The Issue: Mayor Bloomberg’s suggestion to extend city-mandated grades to food carts.
Thank you for “Mike & Health Dept. in Food-Cart Feud” (Aug. 2).
Mayor Bloomberg wants to know that vendors have washed their hands before they serve the hot dogs that he loves to eat.
What the mayor should know is that whatever nasty substances may be on a vendor’s hands are probably mild compared to what is in a hot dog.
Jim Scotto
Manhattan
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Food carts should be banned, because far too many are unsanitary.
Unlike restaurants, the cart owners do not pay rent and, without cash-register machines, can vastly understate their income to the IRS.
While carts block the flow of pedestrians, their food fouls up the air, especially on hot, sticky summer days.
Just like the pedicabs disregarding traffic rules and clogging the streets, food carts do not add to the enjoyable ambience of New York.
Brett Papdakis
Brooklyn
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It is a great idea that the Health Department start grading food carts.
Just as Bloomberg insists that he wants to know whether or not the guy washed his hands before he reaches in and pulls out a hot dog, it is an issue that all New Yorkers should worry about.
Felicia Feliz
Queens