WHAT DOES A 5 STAR FOOD HYGIENE RATING SAY ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS?

With social media making or breaking business reputations in today’s date, it is the place to boast about your 5 star food hygiene rating. Customers who want to look up a café, restaurant, pub, takeaway or any other food establishment on the internet before they go out, will make instant decisions on visiting premises, that have the food hygiene rating scheme shown next to their business names. So it is an excellent way boast about it in order to get instantly noticed.Display your logo in any good visible places, such as on your Facebook, Twitter or on any other social media platforms you may use.

Display the food hygiene sticker on the entrance door or in your front shop window for maximum impact, so people walking in the street who didn’t have a particular plan on where to eat out, might just stop and walk through your doors or make a mental note to either pop in next time or look you up on the website. Use the logo in your promotion leaflets and in all your marketing tools.

The 5 star food hygiene rating logo gives customers greater confidence and reassurance. The Environmental Health Officer who inspected the business was happy that the premises is of suitable size, location, construction and design to enable the production of safe and legal products. The food safety standard rating is a confirmation that your business is doing everything it can to protect its customers. Your customers do not know that in order to achieve the 5 stars on the doors, not only does your management and staff follow strict control and maintenance procedures such as a food safety management system, health and safety policy, HACCP and WPRA (workplace risk assessment) and fire risk assessment, but also that you invested and keep investing in appropriate staff training. Then all your food handlers receive Level 1 health and safety and Level 2 food safety training, general managers, head and sous chefs all had to achieve Level 3 food hygiene training and front of house at least Level 1food hygiene training.

Customers can be safe in the knowledge that every job and work process is recorded and maintained. There is a safe and approved system in place and from the moment the chef places an order with their approved food supplier, everything is documented, recorded and checked until the prepared food is served to the customer at the table or sent to their homes. Your business reputation on achieving the 5 star rating by the FSA will spread, your customer base will increase your sales will increase and so will your profit.

People living around a 5 star rated café, restaurant, pub, takeaway or any other food establishment are proud to have you in the town or village and will spread the word.