Food Hygiene Rating

Food hygiene rating key to 68% of consumers

06-Dec-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

More than two thirds (68%) of consumers choose where they will buy food from based on a venue’s food hygiene rating, according to new research.

Staffordshire pub receives zero food hygiene rating

12-Oct-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

A Staffordshire pub has been given a zero food hygiene rating due to inadequately trained staff and lack of a documented food safety management system.

Popular pub receives zero food-hygiene rating and needs major improvement

02-Oct-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

A Lincolnshire pub has fallen from a five star rating to zero for food hygiene, following a recent inspection.

Mark Sargeant hits out at two-star food hygiene rating

26-Sep-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Chef-operator Mark Sargeant has used social media to hit back at his Kent bar’s drop in its food hygiene rating from a five to a two-star rating.

One third of hospitality kitchens have served meat ‘on the turn’

29-Jun-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

More than 30% of chefs have worked in kitchens that served meat ‘on the turn’, according to a university study.

Pubs charged for food hygiene re-inspections

20-Mar-2017 By Nicholas Robinson

Pubs could be made to pay for requested re-inspections of their businesses under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS), the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced.

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Mitchells & Butlers helping FSA develop Food Hygiene Rating Scheme

30-Sep-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Mitchells and Butlers (M&B) is testing the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) new food hygiene scheme, which aims to ease pressure on resource-strapped local authorities, improve food safety and adapt the current Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.

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Zero-star food hygiene ratings significantly down across pub sector

02-Sep-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

The number of pubs given the lowest possible food hygiene rating by the Food Standards Agency has consistently dropped over the past four years, new data reveals.

Licensee 'devastated' to receive one-star food hygiene rating for rare burgers

28-Jun-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

A Surrey licensee was furious when his Food Hygiene Rating was dropped from 5 to 1 by the local council for serving rare burgers.

'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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How hygienic are pubs?

13-Nov-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

Pubs and bars outperformed restaurants, cafés and canteens in the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) food hygiene broad compliance report, a result spurred by increasing competition in the eating out sector.

FSA survey shows awareness of food hygiene rating schemes on the up

27-Oct-2014 By Mike Berry

Consumer awareness of food hygiene rating schemes and the old-style Scores on the Doors scheme is growing, according to the latest survey from the Food Standards Agency.

One in 10 households live with food allergy risk, FSA finds

21-Oct-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

More than one in 10 people believe they live in a household in which someone has a food allergy.

91% of JDW pubs gain top food hygiene rating

15-Aug-2014 By Ruth Williams, M&C Report

JD Wetherspoon has scored the maximum five star rating in the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Food Hygiene Rating Scheme for 747 of the 816 Wetherspoon pubs listed on the FSA website.

Business Advice

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

FSA tells consumers to check pubs' hygiene ratings this Christmas

03-Dec-2013 By Lesley Foottit

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is encouraging consumers to consider pub hygiene ratings when choosing dining venues this Christmas.

Hygiene rating displays now mandatory for Welsh pubs

28-Nov-2013 By Lesley Foottit

Food businesses in Wales are now required to display their hygiene rating at their premises.

Food hygiene and poisoning top concern for consumers

19-Jul-2013 By Lesley Foottit

The top two concerns for consumers when eating out are food hygiene (40%) and food poisoning (30%).

Pubcos pulled up for poor hygiene standards

04-Jan-2013 By Lesley Foottit

A tabloid hygiene investigation has named and shamed some of the biggest UK pub operators.

FSA plans widespread adoption of Food Hygiene Rating System

09-Sep-2011 By Lesley Foottit

All local authorities in England and Northern Ireland are being encouraged to adopt the same Food Hygiene Rating System following complaints and confusion over different methods in practice.

Rochdale rolls out Food Hygiene system

06-Jul-2011 By Lesley Foottit

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council has rolled out the Food Hygiene Rating System, following more than 150 local authorities in England. The Food...

Northern Ireland rolls out Hygiene Rating System

20-Jun-2011 By Lesley Foottit

Councils in Northern Ireland have launched the Food Hygiene Rating System, seven months after it was rolled out across the UK. All food-led venues...

Pub hygiene reviews for a fee

14-Mar-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Pub operators in London's Westminster are being offered the chance to pay for extra checks to enhance their food hygiene rating. Licensees...

New national food standards scheme launched

30-Nov-2010

A new national food hygiene rating scheme for all food establishments, including pubs, has been launched across Britain. The Food Standards Agency...

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.

Scores on Doors to show licence info

12-Aug-2009 By John Harrington

The public could soon access details of a pub's licence alongside its food hygiene rating on the Scores on the Doors website. Developers of the...

Councils forced to wait over compulsory hygiene scheme

11-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore

Plans by London councils to break away from the rest of the country and force the capital's pubs to display a food hygiene rating have been derailed....

London councils team up to show 'scores on the doors'

08-Oct-2007

Pubs across London are to be asked to display a food hygiene rating after 28 of the capital's councils teamed up to launch a 'scores on the doors'...