The Environmental Division of the Sioux Falls Health Department is responsible for conducting health inspections at restaurants, grocery stores, and lodging establishments. If you would like to file a complaint about any of the above facility types please fill out the complaint form and send it to us. All information about you is kept confidential unless the case goes to court (which is very rare). 

We will investigate any item related to food safety and sanitation. 

Please include: 

• The name and address of the establishment.
• The date and approximate time you observed the problem.
• Any conversation you had regarding the problem with facility staff.
• Your name, address, and phone number.
• If anybody in your party became ill.
• If you would like a call back from the inspector.
  
  
• Contact the Sioux Falls Health Department.

Complete reinspections are conducted within 30 days for all facilities that score less than 80. Follow-up inspections are also conducted for all critical items (3 points and greater) that were not corrected during the routine inspection. These are done within 10 days.

Inspection scores will be updated generally every 30 days. Only the most recent two routine inspection scores are posted here.

The inspection date is listed on each inspection report.

Restaurants and grocery stores are inspected at least twice a year. If a facility is only operating at a certain time of the year, it will be inspected at least once during its operation season.

Inspections are unannounced. This means facilities do not know when an inspection will take place until the inspector walks in the door.

An inspection checklist consists of 44 items. Each item has an assigned point value based on the risk that violation presents to the public. Scores are determined by adding up the point values of the cited items and subtracting that value from a perfect score of 100 points. Facilities must score an 80 or greater to pass the inspection.

Example 1: One (2 point) item and three (1 point) items would remove a total of five points from a perfect score of 100 points for a total of 95 points.

Example 2: One (5 point) violation would remove 5 points from a perfect score of 100 points for a total of 95 points.

Only routine inspection scores are posted. Follow-up inspections, complaint investigations, facility correspondence, or any action that is currently in progress is not posted.