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 demonstated here:

Hakkasan

Address:
17 Bruton Street
London
W1J 6AL
Date of inspection: 05 January 2015

Hakkasan

Address:
8 Hanway Place
London
W1P 9DL
Date of inspection: 06 July 2015

Yauatcha

Address:
Basement
15 – 17 Broadwick Street
London, W1F 0DE
Date of inspection: 23 June 2011

Yauatcha

Address:
32 Broadgate Circle
London
EC2M 2QS
Date of inspection: 15 October 2015

Princi

Address:
135-137 Wardour Street
London
W1V 4AP
Date of inspection: 14 November 2012

Chapati & Karak

Address:
144 Brompton Road
LONDON
SW3 1HY
Date of inspection: 15 January 2016

Snozone

Address:
Xscape
Colorado Way
Castleford, WF10 4TA
Date of inspection: 15 October 2014

Snozone MK Division

Address:
602 Marlborough Gate
Central Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes, MK9 3XA
Date of inspection: 28 July 2015

Kouzu

Address:
21 Grosvenor Gardens
London
SW1W 0BD
Date of inspection: 19 March 2015

Doubletree at Stadium MK

Address:
Double Tree By Hilton Hotel, Stadium Mk
Stadium Way West
Milton Keynes, MK1 1ST
Date of inspection: 23 September 2015

Blakes Hotel

Address:
33-39 Roland Gardens
LONDON
SW7 3PF
Date of inspection: 16th March 2015