Health & safety
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The number of businesses in Westminster with top standards for food hygiene has risen from 15 to 132 since the implementation of the ‘Scores on the Doors’ rating system 12 months ago.
Posted: 06 October 2008 | 12:15
The overwhelming majority of workers (91%) in the catering sector would go to work stressed, while almost half would go to work with a migraine due to fears over job security, research revealed today.
Posted: 06 October 2008 | 07:00
A hotelkeeper in Scotland has been fined £900 after he failed to clean up his premises despite seven separate visits from environmental health officers.
Posted: 30 September 2008 | 08:00
The Thistle Hotel in Brighton was evacuated in the early hours of this morning due to a suspected chemical leak
Posted: 19 September 2008 | 11:47
A Manchester restaurant has been devastated by a fire just days after opening following a £3m investment.
Posted: 18 September 2008 | 17:14
Clive Brearley, sales manager of Weatherite Building Services' Kitchen Ventilation Division advises kitchen operators on how to stay within the law and save energy costs.
Posted: 18 September 2008 | 11:42
The owner of a Norfolk hotel has been fined a total of more than £12,000 after a guest fell down cellar steps after going through a door which should have been kept locked.
Posted: 17 September 2008 | 14:39
An Indian restaurant on Manchester's “Curry Mile” has been fined £10,000 after health inspectors found kitchens in a filthy state.
Posted: 15 September 2008 | 12:30
Punch Taverns today confirmed that it has taken disciplinary action against individuals exposed in last night’s Rogue Restaurants programme for allowing poor hygiene at three Spirit pubs in Westminster and Chelsea.
Posted: 29 August 2008 | 15:26
The owner of pub chain Yates’s has confirmed that the manager and kitchen team at its Reading outlet have resigned following a BBC exposé of poor hygiene standards on the Rogue Restaurants programme.
Posted: 22 August 2008 | 11:42
The owner of an Italian restaurant in London’s Soho is in dispute with the BBC after he claimed that his business was wrongly implicated during an episode of Rogue Restaurants earlier this month.
Posted: 20 August 2008 | 07:00
About 50 firefighters have been tackling a fire at a County Durham hotel since the early hours of Friday, the BBC is reporting.
Posted: 15 August 2008 | 14:43
A Manchester-based curry restaurant has been fined more than £31,000 after a health inspector found its kitchen infested with cockroaches and mouse droppings.
Posted: 15 August 2008 | 14:24
Shocked diners – including a food critic – were told to abandon their meals as health inspectors shut down the restaurant in which they were eating, last week.
Posted: 08 August 2008 | 07:00
James Martin, presenter of Saturday Kitchen on BBC1, has been "named and shamed" after a food inspection at his Winchester delicatessen.
Posted: 05 August 2008 | 11:15
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Share price fall interests CVC in Punch; Founder seeks to rescue Beanscene coffee shops from administration; Pubs and clubs lead quarterly rise in business failures
Posted: 04 August 2008 | 10:52
The safety responsibilities of caterers working with hot beverages have come to the fore again following the latest scalding case - this time to a 13-month-old baby.
Posted: 04 August 2008 | 10:34
With guests tramping through them daily, hotel rooms can easily fall below standard. Catherine Quinn discovers 10 health and safety precautions every hotelier should know about
Posted: 31 July 2008 | 00:00
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Councils crack down on Peking Duck ovens; Dawnay Day sale slashes 45% off Premium shares; SATS exam markers headhunt Hilton bar staff
Posted: 21 July 2008 | 10:30
Industry bodies have hailed a “victory for common sense” after the House of Lords ruled that the London Authorities’ proposed compulsory scores-on-the-doors displays will have to comply with the system recommended by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Posted: 15 July 2008 | 08:00
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