Having good hygiene is a great way to show customers and potential customers your eatery is a good choice for them to eat at. Plus it’s the law!

A prominent good food hygiene rating gives people peace of mind when they order from you. So make sure you shout about it!

It’s not even difficult to up your cleaning efforts, especially if you could reap the financial rewards of increasing or sustaining your Food Hygiene rating.

The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme is run by local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in partnership with the Foods Standards Agency.

After an inspection by a food safety officer, you hygiene rating will be given based upon the time of the inspection.

With ratings from ‘0’ at the bottom, meaning that urgent improvement is necessary, to ‘5’ at the top, meaning that your business has ‘very good’ hygiene standards.

A 5 Food Hygiene Rating,
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Although not a guide to outright food quality, having a good rating is a prominent way to display to your customers that you take pride in your food preparation.

But how is your rating determined? Well it will depend upon the following factors:

• how hygienically the food is handled – how it is prepared, cooked, cooled, stored, and what measures are taken to prevent food being contaminated with bacteria
• the condition of the structure of your premises, including cleanliness, layout, lighting, ventilation, equipment and other facilities
• how you manage and record what you do to make sure food is safe

Inspectors will explain if there are any ways to improve your food hygiene standards, it really isn’t all that difficult to reach the top rating.

The best bit of getting a good rating? You’ll get a sticker to put on your window! Telling everyone that you are serious about safe food procedures! Everyone loves a certificate, so you get one of those too!

We wouldn’t be very good catering equipment suppliers if we didn’t have an extensive range of cleaning products, hardware, chemicals and equipment to help you get that 5 star rating!

If you need any advice, or would like to speak to a member of our team about our range of cleaning gear and essentials then please call 01977 687 665.