[Talk-GB] No FHRS data on a food establishment

[SK53]

As I say this varies from council to council.

One case which came up on this list a while back was an event facility in
North London often used for wedding feasts. I actually queried why this
wasn't listed on FHRS with the, as it turned out, wrong, local authority.
It was definitely someone else's problem.

I'm aware that many B&Bs are not present in the data in areas of rural
Scotland.

The recent article in the Guardian covered some of the other reasons why
places are not registered.

I imagine the FSA would be quite interested in learning anything
non-anecdotal about the numbers of establishments which are not registered.

Jerry

On 3 October 2016 at 19:28, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 03/10/16 15:50, SK53 wrote:
>
>> I've just added details for a pub where I stopped for a drink on
>> Saturday. It obviously had about half of it's floor area given over to a
>> dining room. It doesn't appear in the FHRS data.
>>
>
> It would still need to register as a food business even if it was only a
> pub, I would have thought.
>
> My impression, locally, is that councils just don't have the money to
> actively find unregistered food businesses, and a large number of food
> businesses fail to register.
>
> Not quite the same thing, but I was looking at a planning application for
> a specialist supermarket recently and the inspector had noted that the site
> had planning permission as  cafe, but appeared to be a (disused) bar
> (different letter category).  I happen to know it was a shisha bar (sui
> generis).  That suggested to me that the council had completely lost track
> of the real nature of the local businesses.
>
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