Exeter cafe which was told "major improvements were necessary" is now five out of five

“@ herbert69
if you stopped thinking that everything a journalist writes is the WHOLE story you might take the time to look at the food standards website to see that it is scored in 3 parts 2 of them are missing from richard birches articles about all of the premises named in his last piece of uninformed schoolboy journalism. it is possible for a piece of paperwork not signed to drop 3 sometimes 4 stars.”

“@Auntymable............I agree that an inspection is a useful tool for business, but the following was the reason they got one of the lowest possible ratings....." a bag of rocket leaves and a tub of double cream was found on the premises past their sell-by date (November 23 for the rocket and November 29 for the cream), it is an offence to sell or expose for sale food with an expired use-by date, stock must be checked daily; the door seal to a freezer was mouldy – clean and maintain; hard contact surfaces such as taps and handles were found to be in a dirty condition throughout the kitchen " Taken from Express and Echo article dated 27th Feb 2013.
Surely you don't need an audit to tell you to clean the kitchen and not stock out of date food?????”

“@Herbert69.......its the same with any audit, you can't improve unless your are shown where the failings are........Well done Real McCoy!”

“It seems a shame they only chose to do the improvements after they were caught by the Council in an inspection and then exposed for poor practice & basic hygiene issues.
Rather a case of "Closing the gate after the horse has bolted".”