What the food hygiene register does over time: openings, closures, inspections and ratings, read from the Food Standards Agency’s own published data. https://thefoodsafety.app/blog/feed.xml 2026-10-16T00:00:00Z The Food Safety App https://thefoodsafety.app/blog/after-a-bad-food-hygiene-rating/ 2026-10-16T00:00:00Z

Of businesses rated 1 that were rated again, 95.6% went up and a third went straight to 5. The wait for that chance nearly triples between a 2 and a 3.

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Confidence in management predicts a new business’s first year no better than the two scores an officer measures. The severe marks just land on it far more often.