Food Hygiene

Pub slapped with £6.7k bill for ‘flies, filthy cloths and mouldy food’

10-Mar-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

A pub has been convicted and sentenced after pleading guilty to a slew of food hygiene offences including flies, dirty worktops and “filthy” cloths.

Pub food hygiene troubles so far this year

27-Feb-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Food hygiene can cost pubs thousands if errors are made. The Morning Advertiser takes a look at issues operators have had with hygiene so far this year.

10% of London food venues require food hygiene improvements

26-Sep-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Some 6,712 (10.1%) London food establishments, including pubs, have a food hygiene rating of two or fewer, according to experts.

Four-star pub called ‘very dirty’ and slapped with £7k bill

30-Aug-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

The owners of a Cornwall pub have been fined £7,655 after falling foul of hygiene offences, despite having a four-star rating.

Harvester pub scores zero food hygiene rating for 'significant failings'

01-Aug-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

A popular Harvester pub was given a zero food hygiene rating for its cleanliness, condition of its restaurant and the management of food safety.

Pubco hotel fined whopping £170k for pest infestation

31-Jul-2017 By James Beeson

Shepherd Neame has been ordered to pay almost £170,000 in fines and court fees after one of its hotels was found to be in violation of four hygiene safety standards.

Ex-licensee hit with bill for almost £3,700 over pub “ingrained with dirt and grease”

03-Feb-2017 By Daniel Woolfson

A former licensee was slapped with a £1,600 fine and ordered to pay more than £2,000 in costs after environmental health officers discovered dozens of food hygiene violations at his pub. 

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'Absolutely disgusting' pub and hotel slapped with £1,900 food hygiene fine

27-Oct-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

The licensees of a Blackpool pub and hotel have been fined after environmental health officers discovered a slew of food hygiene offences.

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How food hygiene ratings can help your business

07-Sep-2016 By Poppleston Allen

Marketing that you are 5 point rated for food hygiene may be as good as a high-quality menu offer.

'Wake-up call' needed for London pubs with poor food hygiene

12-May-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

More than 100 City of London food businesses are at risk of losing more than half their customers due to bad food hygiene practices, new research claims.

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Diners prefer rude staff to dirty premises, research shows

27-Apr-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Diners would sooner put up with rude staff than a dirty or unclean venue, according to new research that revealed 61% of UK consumers wouldn’t risk eating in an establishment that had a low Food Standards Agency hygiene rating.

Licensee turns pub around after £30k fine for rat droppings and food hygiene offences

01-Apr-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

A Teesside licensee who was slapped with a £30,000 fine after environmental health officers found rat droppings in his pub’s storeroom among numerous food hygiene offences last year has spoken of how he has turned the business around. 

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Wetherspoon leads the way on food hygiene ratings

24-Nov-2015 By James Evison

The Food Standards Agency is celebrating the success of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme - launched five years ago - by releasing information that breaks down its food hygiene ratings.

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JDW defends pub after claims centipede was found in breakfast

05-Aug-2015 By Oli Gross

JD Wetherspoon has defended a pub after a centipede allegedly crawled out from underneath a customer’s hash brown when he was eating breakfast.

FSA and Made in Chelsea star raising Valentine's Day food hygiene awareness

09-Feb-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has embarked on a Valentine's-themed scheme to increase customer awareness of venues’ food hygiene ratings.

FSA says diners will shun outlets with hygiene rating below 3

06-Nov-2014 By James Wallin, M&C Report

The Food Standards Agency is warning diners not to book their Christmas meal at any outlet with a low hygiene rating.

How clean is your pub?

27-Oct-2014 By Alison Baker

The Publican's Morning Advertiser looks at the cleaning necessities, from a health inspector's point of view, on how to make sure your pub is as hygienic and clean as possible.

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The Fight Against Grime

16-May-2014 By Phil Mellows

When it comes to catering for the public, nothing comes higher than food hygiene and, as Phil Mellows reveals, running a tight ship is the only sound approach

More food businesses displaying hygiene stickers

10-Jul-2013 By Lesley Foottit

More food businesses scoring highly for hygiene standards are displaying their rating for consumers.

Pub hygiene ratings roll-out

18-Oct-2010 By John Harrington

Councils could be forced to adopt the scheme that lets the public see food hygiene ratings of pubs - and pubs may have to display the results. The Government is to adopt the recommendations about the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.

Clean break for the kitchen

08-May-2009 By Peter Coulson

Pubs are subject to the same rules of hygiene as any other catering establishment, warns Peter Coulson.

Essex pub fined £1,000 for food hygiene breaches

24-Mar-2009

A licensee has been fined £1,000 after pleading guilty to 23 breaches of food hygiene law.Nicholas Marchetto, tenant at the Rose and Crown in...

M&B's £13,000 food hygiene bill

05-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team

Mitchells & Butlers has been fined £13,000 after one of its pubs in Formby breached food hygiene regulations. Food safety officers visited the...

BBPA claims food hygiene scheme is misleading

01-Feb-2008 By James Wilmore

A petition has been presented to Parliament attacking a potential law forcing London pubs to display a food hygiene rating. The controversial Scores...

Coulson: Time for the trade to clean up its act

31-Jan-2008 By Peter Coulson

MA legal editor says the trade needs to tighten up its food hygiene standards and knowledge

Food hygiene must be a top priority

26-Jul-2007

Two recent high-profile prosecutions - against the Spirit Group and Greene King - have resulted in fines and costs in each case of over £20,000 for...

Spirit fined in new pub hygiene case

11-Jul-2007

Another Spirit pub has been fined for food hygiene breaches, the second such case for the managed pub group in recent weeks.The company was fined a...

Spirit pub fined over hygiene breaches

25-Jun-2007

Spirit Group has been fined £17,500 for seven breaches of food hygiene rules at an Edinburgh pub.The managed pub operator, owned by Punch Taverns,...

The GUV'NOR

09-Nov-2006

Peter Eveleigh The licensee of the Riverside Inn in Bradford-on-Avon muses on proposals for giving pubs a star rating for their food hygiene Being...

A practical solution

08-Mar-2002

A new training programme aims to help licensees comply with the law cheaply and easilyTraining for staff who handle food is now a legal requirement,...

Safe food handling

06-Nov-2001

Although figures show that pub caterers seem to be understanding the need for higher food hygiene standards, the Food Safety Agency says there is...

Safety in the kitchen

15-Mar-2001

The dramatic increase in the number of pubs offering food over the past decade has given local authority Environmental Health Officers - EHOs -...