If I saw a yellow I would be thinking to myself “So one of the cooks didnt wash his hands when the inspector was there so the place must be ok to eat at.” With this example who is to say that if one employee isnt doing what they should be health/safety wise the rest of the employees arent.

I just think when it comes to public safety there should be no guess work, but then again society is full of guess work, inconsistencies and such.

That may be true in some cases, but it’s certainly not true in all cases.

“If no one was able too marketers wouldn’t bother trying to come up with new angles.”

I’d say that the opposite is probably more likely. As long as lots of people lack discenment (true), and as long as marketers love those people who lack discernment (true), then marketers will have reason to ply their trade.

Completely untrue. Anyone who can’t tell the diffrence isn’t smart enough to know. If no one was able too marketers wouldn’t bother trying to come up with new angles.

News/Entertainment/Advertising have been the same beast for decades. It doesn’t make a diffrence if you can think, and most people are able to do so.

In any case, I hope the system they chose is based on research on what works best for both the public and the restaurants. Public input is nice, but really all we can do is idle speculation.

I have no problem with designated areas where folks can post to their heart’s desire. It’s worked well in the local supermarket for years. But when every last pole is covered with silliness like this by folks who don’t believe in cleaning up after themselves, the streetscape starts to look like Dundas Street pretty damn quickly.