We go to restaurants to enjoy good food, but sometimes it becomes our worst experience.
A curry house owner has been charged after a customer found a 3cm metal screw inside an onion bhaji.
Nice and Spicy restaurant, in Lancaster, was fined after a metal screw was found in the customer’s meal and ordered to pay £15,000 ($20,000)by magistrates. After the customers complain, inspectors found seven safety and hygiene breaches.
Environmental health officers make a visit to check the takeaway after the customer had discovered a 3cm metal screw which was baked inside an onion bhaji.
Lancaster Magistrates’ Court heard that the ingredients were kept without covering containers in the dirty and dusty store goods area, the construction was also unfinished.
The restaurant’s owner, N&S (Lancs) LLP, did not appear in court.
Mark Davies, director of communities and the environment at Lancaster City Council, said: “All food businesses have a fundamental duty to their customers to operate their businesses in a responsible way to ensure that the food they provide is prepared in hygienic conditions and is fit for human consumption.
“Whilst the vast majority of our food businesses achieve a food hygiene rating of at least 3, and that many of our food businesses have a rating of 4 or 5, where this is not the case and businesses are not able to demonstrate that they are taking steps to improve their practices, the city council will not hesitate to prosecute.
“I urge anyone thinking of eating out or buying a takeaway to check out the food hygiene rating of the business.”
In the past, the firm had been issued with a written warning after an inspection revealed the same kind of issues in November 2018.
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