Debenhams and Stevie G's Vincent Cafe lurk in bottom of Liverpool hygiene league
DO you know how hygienic your favourite takeaway or cafe is? And if you did, would you think twice about dining there?
According to new research from commercial insurer NFU Mutual, almost half of customers will physically turn away from the front doors of nearly 9,000 Merseyside restaurants, takeaways and cafés when, in 2019, they will be legally required to display their food hygiene ratings. Good, bad or ugly.
Mandatory display means any outlet that serves or sells food must display its score in a prominent place such as the front door or window.
The Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme uses a rating system from 0-5. More than 84 percent of businesses in the North West that serve or sell food have a food hygiene rating of 4 (good) or 5 (very good).
It's is so significant that even customer loyalty cannot prevail against it - a huge 38 percent of people said that if a favourite food outlet had scored 3 out of 5 "generally satisfactory" or less, they would stop visiting altogether.
For the same score of three or less, 45 percent would not consider visiting a food outlet they hadn’t tried before.
With more than 800 Liverpool eating places having a Food Standards Agency rating of 3 (generally satisfactory) or less, that's more than 20 percent - it's not going to be great for business.
St Helens comes bottom of the pile in Merseydise with more than a quater of establishments going three or below. But pity the pie loving people of Wigan who notched up 38 percent of fair to filthy eating places.
And we're not likely to forget easily either. Even if a food business had a poor food hygiene rating and made changes that rectified it to a very good food hygiene rating, over half (55 percent) of people would either have lost trust and not be satisfied that the hygiene was up to standard or that the food was safe, or be more satisfied but still wary of the hygiene and safety of the food
215 Merseyside establishments currently have a one star rating, indicating that ‘major improvement is necessary.’
The list of shame includes Bold Street's Soul Cafe, Lark Lane favourites Love & Rockets and The Meat Factory, Kabinett on Myrtle Street and the City of Liverpool Community College.
Debenham's on Lord Street got a shocking zero rating, indicating that "urgent improvement is necessary", as did Steven Gerrard's swishy Vincent Cafe on Exchange Flags.
Commenting on the report, Darren Seward, Hospitality Sector Specialist at NFU Mutual, said “It’s fantastic to see that 84 pc of food outlets in the North West have a rating of good or very good and the industry as a whole is taking real pride in food hygiene, but imminent compulsory displays are destined to be a game changer for those businesses struggling to reach the top grades."
FROM ZERO TO NOT-SO HERO: THE ROLL CALL OF WHO NEEDS TO SORT THEMSELVES OUT
FSA Rating of zero - urgent improvement necessary
Buffet Club
23-25 Prescot Street L7 8UE
Chicken Bazooka
9-11 Ranelagh Place L3 5SB
Chopstix Noodle Bar
Unit E Saint Georges Way St Johns Precinct L1 1LY
Debenhams
42 Lord Street L2 1TA
Hometown Dining House
Arrad Street L7 7JE
Mr Chilli Limited
Ground Floor 92 Seel Street L1 4BL
Vincent Cafe & Cocktail Bar
Unit 2 Walker House Exchange Passage West Exchange Flags L2 3YL
*****
FSA rating of 1 - major improvement necessary
Button Street Smokehouse
2-4 Baker House Button Street L2 6PT
Butty Bar
Parfitts Car Park Larch Lea L6 5BN
Cafe Mama's
58 Aigburth Road L17 7BN
Cafe Naz
8 High Street L15 8HG
Chatty Church Cafe
St Christophers Church Lorenzo Drive L11 1BQ
Chilli
561 West Derby Road L13 8AD
Coffee Shop
57 Lodge Lane L8 0QE
Cole's Cafe
Unit 2 Gateway Complex 17 Saint Marys Road L19 2NJ
Cravings
71a Mount Pleasant L3 5TB
Daisy's Deli
282 Saint Marys Road L19 1QD
Dens Diner
227 Lowerhouse Lane L11 2SF
Elif Turkish BBQ Restaurant
33 Bold Street L1 4DN
Fork Cafe
131 Vauxhall Road L3 6BN
Four Seasons Restaurants and Bar
78-82 Renshaw Street L1 2SJ
Fruit2Juice
184 Townsend Lane L13 9DN
Golden Empire Chinese Restaurant
42 Prescot Road L7 0JA
Gulshan Indian Restaurant
544-548 Aigburth Road L19 3QG
Jasmine's Indian & Sri Lankan Rest.
36-38 Townsend Lane L6 0BA
Lazeez Grill House
34-48 London Road L3 5NF
Liverpool Somali Community Centre
57 Granby Street L8 2TU
Meat Factory
101 Lark Lane L17 8UP
Momtaj 2
80-82 Rice Lane L9 1DD
New China Restaurant
27-31 Berry Street L1 9DF
Pac Lunch
17 Childwall Valley Road L16 4PB
Poundcafe & Poundbakery
41 Saint Johns Precinct Houghton Street L1 1LP
Remora
4 South Hunter Street L1 9JG
Soul Cafe Ltd
114 Bold Street L1 4HY
The City of Liverpool Community College
30 Clarence Street L3 5TP
The Goodison Cafe
19 Goodison Road L4 4EH
The Great Wall Restaurant
4 Childwall Abbey Road L16 0JN
The Housewifes Kitchen
397 Edge Lane L7 9LQ
The New Station Coffee Shop
85 Woolton Road L19 6P
Unique Juices & Nutrition
379 Eaton Road L12 2AH
Yo's Restaurant
18 Wavertree Road L7 1PQ
Zatar Lebanese & Syrian Street Food
45 Lodge Lane L8 0QE
*****
FSA rating of 2 - improvement necessary
Antalya Barbecue Restaurant
72-74 Rose Lane L18 8AG
Babylon Grill
417 Smithdown Road L15 3JL
Balti Massala
130 Warbreck Moor L9 0HY
Barley and Beans
17 Hatton Garden L3 2HA
Belles
58 Moss Lane L9 8AN
Bulldog Butty Bar
6 Honeys Green Precinct L12 9JH
Cafe 90
90 Compass Industrial Estate Spindus Road L24 1YA
Caveau Ltd
59 Allerton Road L25 7RE
Chilli Pot
26 North John Street L2 9RU
China City
46-48 Nelson Street L1 5DN
City Square
Tithebarn Street L2 2BP
Coffee Break
Cafe Belle Vale Shopping Centre L25 2RF
DCE Cafe
119 Green Lane L13 7BB
Derek's Noodle Bar
65 Renshaw Street L1 2SJ
Dolphin Cafe
24 Speke Road L19 2PA
Eureka
7-9 High Street L15 8HE
Evil Eye Beer & Burrito Shack
208 Smithdown Road L15 3JT
Kurdastan Cafe
55 London Road L3 8HY
Lady of Mann
19 Dale Street L2 2EZ
Las Iguanas
Unit P7 14 Paradise Street L1 8JF
Mall Cafe
The Mall Unit 4 Breck Road L4 2QZ
Mattel Play
Albert Dock L3 4AA
Mayflower Restaurant
48 Duke Street L1 5AS
Middle East Bazaar
93 Lodge Lane L8 0QF
Naked Lunch
431 Smithdown Road L15 3JL
Parkers Cafe
25 Warbreck Moor L9 4RW
Peking Duck Restaurant
471 Smithdown Road L15 5AE
Pete's Place
91 Regent Road L5 9TD
Rococo Coffee House Limited
61 Lord Street L2 6PB
Royal Court Theatre
Roe Street L1 1HL
Sans
1 Lightbody Street L5 9UU
Schmooze
15-17 Church Road L15 9EA
Starbucks
Unit P28 South John Street L1 8LW
Tai Ping Restaurant
292-294 Smithdown Road L15 5AJ
The Clove Hitch
23 Hope Street L1 9BQ
The Deli Sandwich Bar & Coffee Shop
395 Smithdown Road L15 3JJ
The Grand Cafe
219 Warbreck Moor L9 0HU
The Pound Deli Shop
108 County Road L4 3QW
Data from the Food Standards Agency, February 2017.
