Meh, there was a place in my city that was infested with vermin
And had rat shit everywhere.
On a side note, our local council have the Scores on the Doors system where health inspectors grade any establishment that serves hot food and drinks a score out of 5 (0=vile 5=spotless) on the hygiene scale. A popular sandwich bar that employed about 8 people got a 1 score and my old boss told everyone in an email about it in an office of approximately 400. My old works must've been about 70% of the custom that went there, this was reduced to 0% literally overnight. It closed a month later.
Not sure that ever sat right with me, it wasn't like it was filthy or anything I've definitely eaten from more dodgy places and the sausage on toast was ace. I think we have a pathological fear of dirt in the West and as long as general basic hygiene is observed it's ok for human consumption, then again I wouldn't want to be eating rat shit in my Beef Fried Rice.
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Fri 3 Jul 2015, 9:10,
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A score of 1 is pretty bad
1 means 'Major improvement necessary' - gotta be pretty bad to get that score
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I guess so but again, I wasn't filthy, filthy.
Maybe I'm not that fussy.
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Fri 3 Jul 2015, 9:46,
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I meant it.
*didn't mean it*
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Fri 3 Jul 2015, 10:09,
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There's a chinese takeaway near me that has a hygiene certificate framed on the wall
expiry date of said certificate - 1998
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 3 Jul 2015, 9:49,
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A low hygiene rating can mean f-all as far as I understand
Could - very likely - mean the place is filthy.
Also could mean that it's clean as a whistle, but didn't demonstrate certain box ticking kow-tow.
Seem to remember MPW steakhouse in Birmingham getting a zero rating, something about not logging bins being taken out or some petty bollocks.
Birmingham also has the "Best Bar None" scheme. Criteria to win seems to be:
1: Are you a massive chain? (maximum point for 'yes')
2: How many door staff do you have?
3. What is your theft policy?
My local's response of:
1:No
2:None; "the day I can't run my pub properly so that I need door staff is the day I sell-up"
and
3: "We're against it, but hasn't happen as yet, see 2"
really didn't go down too well.
Best intentions screwed by petty bureaucracy.
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