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[Food] Would you buy food from a 1/5 "Scores on the Doors" establishment?
- Thread starter Bozza
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- Oct 21, 2016
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Having spoken to one of the restaurants ‘scorers’ by chance at a friend’s party last year, the scores are worked out according to but not exclusively food hygiene. The storage of food, it’s source and food preparation. I was told that it is relatively easy to get 5/5 if you follow common sense and have the right attitude concerning hygiene. It is quite easy to drop one point to get 4 out of 5 but to get 3 or lower shows a disregard for a restaurants customers . Food hygiene and preparation is no joke, it’s relatively easy to get violently ill on chicken badly cooked or significantly past its sell by date.
You are basically playing Russian roulette with your health if you eat anywhere with less than 4 out of 5. We are very lucky that nowadays we know the standards of the restaurants we eat in in Brighton and Hove. Surely only a fool would intentionally put themselves at risk eating somewhere that in effect has a big sign telling you there hygiene/ food preparation is not up to scratch.
A quick walk along Church Road in Hove, 9 out of 10 restaurants had a score of 4 or 5 so it can’t be that difficult to achieve.
You are basically playing Russian roulette with your health if you eat anywhere with less than 4 out of 5. We are very lucky that nowadays we know the standards of the restaurants we eat in in Brighton and Hove. Surely only a fool would intentionally put themselves at risk eating somewhere that in effect has a big sign telling you there hygiene/ food preparation is not up to scratch.
A quick walk along Church Road in Hove, 9 out of 10 restaurants had a score of 4 or 5 so it can’t be that difficult to achieve.
Arthur
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Spot on. My local got a four when the landlord asked why it was because he only had one sink so vegetables were washed in the same sink as washing up may be done.
Which is quite clearly a load of old bollocks you wouldn't think twice about doing that at home.
So not worth paying attention to IMO.
That chippy by the BoT always has queues out the door and I think that has 0 or 1.
Biancazzurro
Active member
My friend's traditional curry house in Burgess Hill gets a 5* rating and the kitchen there is absolutely tiny. Sounds like an odd point to make but trust me if they can get organised enough to get a 5* there really is no excuse for anyone. I'd steer clear of anywhere under 3 stars. Browsing through the listings does come up with some surprises though doesn't it. I wonder if all the posh villagers in Hurstpierpoint are bothered by their 1* butcher or whether The Ginger Fox should really be a bit less expensive if their team can only get a 3*.
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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Ate at one place a while back with my partner at the time, that had a 1 star rating
2 years later...BOOOM. My dad died.
Never eating there again.
2 years later...BOOOM. My dad died.
Never eating there again.
desprateseagull
New member
Is Sing Li still going, in any shape or form? I understood it had reopened as a chinese takeaway?
I always envisage the 1s and 2s being like the worst of those on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.......mice, rotten food, cooked meat next to raw, 10 years of congealed gunk on the grill etc.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Maybe it was because you said..."I play for Brighton and Hove Albion...can I get a discount?&
TSB
Captain Hindsight
A place SO SHIT that it has now been closed for good by environmental health is not somewhere one should be eating.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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kjgood
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This recollection is mainly correct, the majority (but not all) of the make up of the star system is based on having written policies, procedures & HACCP documents in place rather than what you actually see. There is an argument that you can have the best written policies in the world in place but if the staff do not follow them (Or even know they exist) then you are no safer than an establishment that doesnt have such well written documents but try really hard to ensure the food they sell is safe. I personnaly judge by what I see and of course what the product is like.
If the local food protection agencies have allowed the establishment to continue to trade then they have met an acceptable criterior.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Nope. Any time I think I may be going to eat somewhere new I'm on the FSA website checking them out. 1/5 and I'm going to give it a swerve.
I've been in an eatery when an inspection was taking place and the inspectors are extremely thorough.
Why take the risk of eating in a place where food safety and hygiene are so low on the proprietors agenda when there are plenty of great places to eat with 4 or 5 star ratings?
I've been in an eatery when an inspection was taking place and the inspectors are extremely thorough.
Why take the risk of eating in a place where food safety and hygiene are so low on the proprietors agenda when there are plenty of great places to eat with 4 or 5 star ratings?
- Aug 7, 2003
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Definitely not. That’s the sort of place where the owner keeps the banknotes in his underpants for safekeeping.
Nope - for the same reasons that others who have already said “no” have cited.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
Most council officials are useless jobsworths,so I don't take any notice of them,or newspaper ratings.If I get bad guts,they don't get my business again,but everybody needs a good flushing through every so often!
I've eaten at that Thai Place a couple of times in the last few months and was fine. However it has been bought by a new owner and it feels a bit 'dodgy' now - apart from the girl in the kitchen not a Thai person in sight!
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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Was told by someone in Brooksteed that the Spice Thai restaurant still has a higher star rating sticker in the window rather than the one star it garnered.... so, don't get the nibbles after having a few ciders Bozza.
