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The difference between a hotel room at $75 a night and $750 a night is the view, the extra shampoo, the cost of the pillows, the fluff of the towels. Price is a measure of comfort and service. What must always be the same at every price is your security, your safety and cleanliness. Unfortunately, it's not. Across the country, hotels are skimping on key safety measures, and the consequences range from stolen laptops and Peeping Toms to sexual assaults and robbery at gunpoint. More than 125 property crimes are committed in hotels and motels every day in the United States, in addition to more than 21 violent crimes (excluding murders).

What's needed is a grading system that will alert potential guests to the quality of a hotel's security, guaranteeing that A-rated facilities have measures in place to assure guests' safety and the rooms' cleanliness. In New York City, Los Angeles and other cities, restaurants are graded based on government inspections, and those grades are posted so you can see them before you walk in the door. Hotels and motels also are entrusted with customers' health and safety, and they must be held equally accountable.

That accountability starts with basic security. For instance, many hotels fail to perform adequate background checks on job applicants before hiring them. In September 2011, a woman staying at a Best Western hotel in Arizona woke up in the middle of the night to find a man standing over her bed. She says the man raped her. He was a registered level-3 sex offender, according to news reports, but Best Western had hired him as a night clerk and given him a master key to guest rooms, allowing him unfettered access to turn any of its female guests into his next victims.

Unfortunately, this story isn't unusual. Best Western fired the sex offender, but a few months later, a Marriott hotel in the same town added him to their payroll. Soon after, a woman staying at that hotel said he raped her, too. Two Arizona state senators are pushing a bill to ban hotels from giving registered sex offenders access to room keys. That is a good step, but sexual assaults are not the only threat to hotel guests.

A few years ago, the Onity electronic hotel lock was found to be easily hackable, leading to a string of hotel room break-ins and endangering 4 million rooms worldwide. Even after the company said it fixed the problem, the break-ins continued.

Fire safety is a major issue, too. While filming an episode of my show, "Hotel Impossible," at the historic Gadsden Inn in Douglas, Arizona, I discovered that not only were all of the fire extinguishers out of date and would not have functioned properly had they been needed, but the entire alarm system had been turned off for 15 years. According to the National Fire Incident Reporting System, there are about 3,900 hotel and motel fires per year, causing about 15 deaths. In nearly 60 percent of those fires, either there were no automatic extinguishing systems like sprinklers or they weren't working. In more than 25 percent of those fires, either there were no smoke alarms or firefighters couldn't determine if there were.

It's not just flammable curtains and faulty electrical systems that can kill you. Last year, three guests at a Best Western in North Carolina died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty pool water heater. Reacting to those deaths, the Best Western chain announced in September that carbon monoxide detectors would be placed in every guest room throughout the country.

Pool accidents are another leading cause of accidental death in hotels. At a Quality Inn & Suites in Seattle last year, it took hotel staff and rescuers nearly three hours to find a man who had drowned in the pool because the water was so murky. A series of problems had led inspectors to close the pool about a month earlier, including improper chlorine levels and loose handrails. Guests should know whether their hotel doesn't take basic pool safety precautions, like making life preservers and rescue hooks readily available.

Hotels vary dramatically in their level of cleanliness, too. I've found absurdly disgusting stains on sheets, pillowcases, blankets and floors that aren't visible without a blue light so guests would never know. I've also found heroin needles in drawers and diarrhea on the bathroom floor. In one hotel, The Empress in New Orleans, I found housekeepers using the same unwashed rags to clean bathrooms and bedrooms because the owner thought that washing rags was a waste of water.

In the absence of a hotel rating system, here's what guests can do help ensure their own safety:

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There was lots of activity on the restaurant front as we closed out 2014:

A building permit has been issued for the new Mellow Mushroom at 15170 Max Leggett Parkway in the quickly growing area near River City Marketplace. Owner John Valentino said he hopes to break ground in February or March with opening in late August or September.

His MM River City LLC paid $1.2 million for the 1.26-acre parcel in 2013. It will be his fifth Mellow Mushroom in the area.

Tenant Contractors has the contract for the $1.5 million, 5,398-square-foot project.

Uncle Maddios Pizza Joint has opened its first Jacksonville restaurant and second in Florida at 8221 Southside Blvd.

The franchise is owned by Kevin Gartner, who has rights to two more in Jacksonville and two in Gainesville. The Atlanta-based chain has plans to open 30 in Florida this year.

Pollo Tropical will build a restaurant at 9370 Atlantic Blvd., the site of an old Hess gas station $870,000, 3,771 square feet, North Coast Construction. Hess still owns the site, which is a block east of Southside Boulevard in the Regency area.

A building permit has been issued for the new Golden Corral at 1201 Memorial Park Road $1.3 million, 11,486 square feet, National Consulting & Development. It will replace the Golden Corral just east on Normandy Boulevard.

And a permit has been issued for Jimmy Johns Gourmet Sandwiches, 201 N. Laura St., $175,000, 1,304 square feet, Dakenna Development.

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