A restaurant owner who was handed a zero-star food hygiene rating claims that the unfair score has left his business on the brink of closure. Mohammed Rahman, who runs Swaddesh in Bridgend county fears his business will last another six weeks maximum.
He opened the Indian restaurant in Pisgah Street, Kenfig Hill, around three years ago and initially earned a four-star hygiene rating - as well as positive reviews online too. But an environmental health officer inspected the business again on May 25 and issued a damning zero-star rating — meaning urgent improvement necessary.
Mr Rahman claims his standards did not fall between inspections. The 34-year-old said: "I was happy. I was doing really good on the takeaway side, and I was getting eight to 11 tables a week. Now I'm getting zero tables and I've been taken off Uber Eats and Just Eat. You need minimum one star to be on there. It's literally messed me up."
