The city’s letter grading program on restaurants is now being applied to food carts and trucks, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Mobile food vendors will begin receiving grades this December and will be subjected to a similar scoring system as restaurants, receiving points for violations that will add up to a total inspection score corresponding to a grade of “A,” “B,” or “C.”

Grades will be posted on the mobile food units and they will be equipped with location-sharing devices to be easily trackable for inspection. Only Health Department agents or staff will have access to the location data, which will be deleted every 24 hours and solely used for inspection.

The city’s letter grading system began under the Bloomberg administration. In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg sought to expand the grading system to food carts, but then-Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said tracking roving food trucks would make enforcement tough.

It is expected to take two years to grade the 5,500 authorized food carts and trucks, according to the Health Department. With 593 registered food trucks, the Bronx had the highest number of violations in the city of unlicensed or un-permitted mobile food vendors, according to numbers evaluated by the Norwood News using city data.

Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said, “Letter grades on food carts and trucks will help New Yorkers see how these businesses fared on their latest inspection, right when they want to place an order. Just as diners appreciate letter grading in restaurants, we expect this program to be popular among customers of food carts and trucks.”

Though the location data will be heavily protected and can only be accessible outside of the health department through court order, the GPS tracking device has some considered for the privacy and well-being of mobile food vendors.

The Street Vendor Project, an organization part of the Urban Justice Center that provides legal assistance to New York City’s marginalized groups, said via twitter, “While vendors getting letter grades is good for everyone, tracking vendors’ movements with GPS devices could have severe consequences for our mostly immigrant communities.”