While I agree that the penalties for breaching food hygiene / safety standards should be high, I think a site like this has pretty serious flaws. Lets say a restaurant cleans up their act after being previously penalised. Can they ever get off this site? How about if the business is sold and the problems of previous management solved?

We have something similar in the Czech Republic, run directly by the food inspection authority –– http://www.potravinynapranyri.cz/Search.aspx?sentcity=&lang=...

.. whats this about?