Scores on the Doors
If you are thinking about eating out, or ordering from a takeaway, you might want to consider checking the company’s latest food hygiene rating first.
For several years now, the Food Standards Agency have been running the Food Hygiene Rating System (FHRS), in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This is more commonly known as ‘Scores on the Doors‘. This publicly available information is published at http://ratings.food.gov.uk/
In practice, this means that local authorities, in partnership with the Food Standards Agency, inspect establishments that serve food, looking at areas such as how food is handled, prepared, cooked, re-heated, cooled and stored; the environment in which the food is prepared and stored, including structure, cleanliness, layout, lighting and ventilation; and how the establishment records and manages its food to ensure it is safe for consumers.
Once inspected, food premises are awarded a rating from 0 (urgent improvement necessary), to 5 (very good). You will often see food premises displaying a sticker on their front window, displaying their food hygiene rating, although as it is not currently a legal requirement to display this, you are more likely to see businesses displaying good results, rather than the lower scores.
DDS International work with a number of clients to help them implement food safety systems that achieve very good results on the Food Hygiene Rating System. Together with the creation of food safety systems that are tailored to individual clients, DDS assist with staff training, periodic auditing, management feedback and enforcement support to ensure a robust solution is in place at all times.
Some of the success stories are demonstrated here:
Hakkasan
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: 17 Bruton Street, London, W1J 6AL
Date of inspection: 05 January 2015
Hakkasan
Food hygiene rating is '4': Good
Address: 8 Hanway Place, London, W1P 9DL
Date of inspection: 06 July 2015
Yauatcha
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: Basement 15 – 17 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 0DE
Date of inspection: 23 June 2011
Yauatcha
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: 32 Broadgate Circle, London, EC2M 2QS
Date of inspection: 15 October 2015
Princi
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: 135-137 Wardour Street, London, W1V 4AP
Date of inspection: 14 November 2012
Chapati & Karak
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: 144 Brompton Road, LONDON, SW3 1HY
Date of inspection: 15 January 2016
Snozone
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: Xscape, Colorado Way, Castleford, WF10 4TA
Date of inspection: 15 October 2014
Snozone MK Division
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: 602 Marlborough Gate, Central Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, MK9 3XA
Date of inspection: 28 July 2015
Kouzu
Food hygiene rating is '4': Good
Address: 21 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0BD
Date of inspection: 19 March 2015
Doubletree at Stadium MK
Food hygiene rating is '5': Very good
Address: Double Tree By Hilton Hotel, Stadium Mk, Stadium Way West, Milton Keynes, MK1 1ST
Date of inspection: 23 September 2015
Blakes Hotel
Food hygiene rating is '4': Good
Address: 33-39 Roland Gardens, LONDON, SW7 3PF
Date of inspection: 16th March 2015