The former owner of Pizza Pan in Frodsham has been fined by magistrates for running unhygienic and dirty premises (Photos on Flickr).
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- Council: Cheshire West and Chester Council
- Fine: £1,350
- Costs: £1,548
- Total: £2,898
Chester Magistrates Court was told that a routine food hygiene inspection was carried out in March 2013 by Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Food Safety Officers at Pizza Pan in Eddisbury Square.
The standards of cleaning and structural compliance inside were found to be far below those expected, as poor as the inspecting officer had seen at the premises.
Samir Benali of Jauncey Street, Bolton, pleaded guilty to nine food hygiene charges.
The charges were:
- Failure to register the food business in his name with the Local Authority
- Failure to maintain the kitchen walls in a sound and clean condition
- Failure to maintain the kitchen ceiling in a sound and clean condition
- Failure to maintain the kitchen floor in a sound and clean condition
- Failure to keep premises clean in general
- Failure to provide effective pest control measures
- Failure to provide soap for washing hands
- Failure to protect high risk food from contamination
- Failure to provide a documented food safety management system
He was fined £150 for each offence and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £1,548 and a victim surcharge of £20 making a total of £2,918.
Subsequent monitoring visits by food safety officers to the premises, revealed that appropriate improvements in standards had been made and maintained, and that the business complied with the Regulations before the business changed hands in August 2013 and also afterwards.
Councillor Lynn Riley, Executive Member for Localities said:
“The public has a right to expect the food we eat to be safe and prepared in a hygienic way in clean surroundings.
“This type of case shows that the responsibility to safe guard food hygiene is on food business operators to meet the standards expected by the Regulations and the consequences should they not be met.“
