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Food hygiene ratings
by Lib Dem team on 31 August, 2018
Although not everywhere displays their food hygiene rating, you can easily find them online.
Since we started checking a few years ago, food hygiene ratings have improve in our area.
Check the ratings here.
The “scores on the doors” website al;so includes the up to date food standards ratings and, to my mind, has a more friendly search facility than the one Iain links to:
https://www.scoresonthedoors.org.uk/
First, displaying the site should be compulsory and secondly, any restaurants with a score of 1 should surely not be serving good to the public.
I agree. I am assuming that 1 is a low score and 5 is high. Unfortunately it doesn’t make that clear.
It shows 1 being “requires major improvement”. 5 is the best score. We should not be going anywhere near a place with a food hygiene rating of 1.
I like to try new restaurants so never look at the scores before I go, in case it deters me. Yes, I know it means I take a risk but I’m OK with that.
I may well look after going and a low rating combined with less than stellar food means I’m not going back. I have in mind a couple of places in Chinatown where I’d always enjoyed the food. That was until, with both cases, I used the toilets to find them in a really disgusting condition. Now, I take the view that if any restaurant lets parts that are open to the public get into that condtion, then goodness knows what the private areas, such as the kitchen, are like.
It was of interest that Iain’s extract above included the Vietnamese place in Northenden. Been there, enjoyed the food but, no, not going back until its score is better than 1. I would also be dubious about going to a place with a 2 – it’d have to be somewhere where I was really interested to try the food. 3 and above should be fine.
We’re fortunate in Gatley that most places have an acceptable score with only Jay’s Charcoal Grill, Kui Sumah Lounge and New Dragon City falling foul of the “scores on the doors”.
And I agree entirely with Alan that it should be compulsory to display the score, as it is in Scotland. At present, you don;t know if a place is not displaying it because they have a very low score or if it’s simply becasue they havent been sufficiently fussed to display it.