Food Hygiene Ratings

Look up any café, chippy, takeaway, pub or school kitchen in the borough — its official hygiene rating and when it was last inspected, straight from the Food Standards Agency register.

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What the rating does and doesn’t tell you

The rating covers how food is handled, the condition of the building and equipment, and how well the business manages and records food safety. It is not a verdict on the food itself, the service, the price or how allergens are handled.

It is a snapshot of one inspection on one day, and the date is shown beside every result. A business that has put things right can ask for a re-inspection, and a new rating replaces the old one.

Wigan Council inspects about 2,500 food businesses in the borough — the ones you order from and the ones you never see, including school and care-home kitchens.

Some low-risk businesses (the council calls them category E) are checked by a self-assessment questionnaire rather than a visit. That check does not produce a new rating, which is why a shop can look as though it has not been inspected for a while.

A rating is not a permanent verdict. A business that has put things right can pay for a re-inspection, and the new rating replaces the old one — the register shows a re-inspection is pending where one is on its way.

Displaying the sticker is voluntary in England, so a place with a good rating may not have one up, and a missing sticker means nothing on its own. The register is the reliable answer.

Rating

What it means

Places

Very good

1,272

Good

524

Generally satisfactory

370

Improvement necessary

122

Major improvement necessary

Urgent improvement necessary

Not yet inspected

New or newly registered

204

Exempt

Low risk, so not rated

By what kind of place it is

The Food Standards Agency’s own categories, largest first.

Kind of place	Places	Rated 5	Not yet inspected
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	939	506 (63%)	127
Retailers - other	498	199 (44%)	20
Takeaway/sandwich shop	366	92 (27%)	21
Pub/bar/nightclub	223	97 (45%)	3
School/college/university	193	138 (73%)	3
Caring Premises	178	122 (71%)	6
Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	90	56 (64%)	3
Mobile caterer	82	53 (83%)	18
Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house	11	2 (22%)	1
Manufacturers/packers	11	6 (67%)	1
Distributors/Transporters	4	1 (100%)	1

Food Hygiene Ratings

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