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Food hygiene

Food hygiene in Sutton by area

In the last month 20 food places across Sutton were given a hygiene score, and 80% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 10 places scored 2 or below, and 37 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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20hygiene scoreslast 31 days
80%scored 516 places, last 31 days
10scored 0 to 2last 3 months
37waiting for a first inspectionusually new or under new owners

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Most inspected this month: Sutton (11), Carshalton (11) and North Cheam (9). The middle Sutton area had 2. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Beddington (88%), The Wrythe (86%) and Carshalton-on-the-Hill (71%).

Every area, ranked

1SuttonSM1115360%516
2CarshaltonSM5115060%414
3North CheamSM395358%621
4CheamSM394356%519
5BelmontSM242752%317
6St HelierSM534166%120
7WallingtonSM631362%13
8Carshalton-on-the-HillSM53771%01
9Worcester ParkKT421164%11
10South BeddingtonSM62956%15
11Carshalton BeechesSM52475%00
12BeddingtonCR01888%12
13The WrytheSM51786%01
14RosehillSM11667%02
15BenhiltonSM112–03
16RoundshawSM612–07
17Woodcote GreenSM611–00
18Beddington CornerCR00560%01
19HackbridgeSM60560%00
20StonecotSM304100%05

“Last month” and “3 months” count the hygiene scores published within each area’s circle. “Scored 5” is the share of the last three months’ scores that were a 5; it needs at least three. “Waiting” is food places registered but not yet inspected. Areas overlap, so one place can count in more than one. Tap a column to sort.

Scored 0 to 2 in the last three months

A score shows how things were on the day of the inspection. Businesses can appeal, and can ask for a new inspection once they have made improvements, so check the Food Standards Agency’s page for the latest.

Top marks this month

16 places scored 5 in the last 31 days.

New food places

No newly registered food places have appeared in the last month.

37 food places across Sutton are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near North Cheam (21), St Helier (20), Cheam (19), Belmont (17) and Sutton (16). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés3263%1
Takeaways and sandwich shops2763%2
Care homes and nurseries17100%0
Shops1421%7
Pubs, bars and clubs683%0
Schools and colleges5100%0
Other caterers450%0
Supermarkets1–0
Importers and exporters1–0
Mobile caterers1–0

Sutton, last three months. The share scoring 5 needs at least three scores.

How food hygiene ratings work

Every place that serves, sells or makes food is inspected by its council’s food safety officers, and the Food Standards Agency publishes the score. Officers look at how food is handled and stored, the state of the building and its cleaning, and how the business manages food safety. The score runs from 0 to 5:

  • 5: very good
  • 4: good
  • 3: generally satisfactory
  • 2: improvement necessary
  • 1: major improvement necessary
  • 0: urgent improvement necessary

How often a place is inspected depends on the risk, so a busy kitchen is visited more often than a shop selling packaged food. New businesses wait for a first visit before they get a score.

Where the figures come from

Scores come from the Food Standards Agency’s food hygiene rating data, published under the Open Government Licence, for every council we cover. Figures for Sutton as a whole count the food places whose nearest area is in Sutton. Each area is a circle round its middle, the same as on its MeBabber page. A score appears here when the agency publishes it, which can be a few weeks after the inspection.

See our sources and their licences. Figures update every night.

Food hygiene in every area

Questions people ask

Which areas of Sutton had the most food hygiene inspections?

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Sutton (11), Carshalton (11), North Cheam (9), Cheam (9) and Belmont (4). The middle Sutton area had 2.

How many Sutton food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 108 food places in Sutton given a score in the last three months, 70 (65%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

Have any Sutton food places scored 0, 1 or 2 recently?

Yes. In the last three months 10 places in Sutton were given 2 or below: 0 scored 0, 4 scored 1 and 6 scored 2. Each is listed on this page with its date. A low score shows how things were on the day of the inspection.

What do food hygiene ratings mean?

Food Standards Agency scores run from 0 to 5: 5 is very good, 4 good, 3 generally satisfactory, 2 improvement necessary, 1 major improvement necessary and 0 urgent improvement necessary. Council officers give the score after an inspection of hygiene, the building and how food safety is managed.