A chef has been fined for failing to show a food hygiene sticker showing a rating of one in his sandwich shop. Ahmed Kadir said he refused to display the rating at Pasha Sandwich Bar in Cardiff because he believed the assessment was "wrong".
Kadir, 43, told WalesOnline he invested around £50,000 into the former optician's shop in Cowbridge Road West, Ely, so he could open a branch of his family's business Pasha there in around May 2022. Two months later an inspector gave the business a food hygiene rating of one – meaning 'major improvement necessary'. The inspector returned in September only to find no sign of the sticker.
A Cardiff Council spokesman said: "The defendant advised officers that he had been away on holiday and had not seen the letter and sticker. The officer supplied another letter and sticker but a subsequent visit the following day found that the sticker was still not displayed and the defendant refused to place the sticker in the window."
