Ratings & HACCP
Food Hygiene Rating Recovery — Birmingham
A rating of 0, 1 or 2 doesn't just sit on the FSA website. It sits on your door, on Deliveroo, and in front of every customer who checks before booking. For restaurants and takeaways across Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell and the wider West Midlands, you can request a re-inspection — but only once you've actually fixed what was found. This package is how you get there.
Rating movement
From 1 — to 5. The work comes before the re-visit request.
Recovery fee
from £950
Project fee. Includes HACCP, training, documentation and a follow-up visit.
Scope
What recovery covers
- What the EHO found, and why
- We go through the inspection report line by line and translate it into what was actually being scored, so nothing gets fixed cosmetically.
- What needs to change
- A full gap analysis across hygiene, structure and management, with a prioritised plan and evidence requirements for each item.
- How the re-visit request works
- What you must have in place before requesting a re-inspection, how the request is made to the council, and what the officer will look for.
- Realistic timescales
- An honest view of how long the work and the re-visit will take, so you can plan around delivery platform and customer expectations.
Fee — recovery
from £950
Gap analysis, HACCP plan written or rewritten, staff training, full documentation pack and a follow-up visit before the re-inspection.
Fee — HACCP
£395
Available standalone or included in the Rating Recovery package.
Documentation
HACCP plan writing
Confidence in management is the category most kitchens lose marks on, and it is usually the paperwork rather than the cooking. I write HACCP plans around your real menu and your real flow — hazards, controls, critical limits, monitoring and corrective actions — with the record sheets your team will actually complete.
- Process flow mapped from goods-in to service
- Hazard analysis with critical limits your team can monitor
- Monitoring records, corrective actions and verification
- Written so an officer can follow it, and staff can use it
Included in recovery
HACCP + follow-up visit
The full recovery package includes the HACCP plan and a follow-up visit before your re-inspection. The standalone HACCP plan is available for businesses that only need the documentation.
£395
standalone
Queries
Frequently asked questions
Free download
Free EHO inspection checklist
A practical walk-round checklist covering all three areas an inspecting officer assesses. Enter your email and download it straight away.
Keep going
Working out where your rating went wrong
How to get a 5 star food hygiene rating
The three things that are scored, and what a 5 actually requires beyond a clean kitchen.
Is a food hygiene rating of 3 bad?
What a 3 signals to customers and delivery platforms, and what usually caused it.
Mock EHO inspection — £295
A rehearsal of the real visit: scored report, prioritised action plan and a staff debrief before I leave.
HACCP plan writing — from £395
A documented food safety system built around your actual menu and flow, not a downloaded template.
Next step
Get your rating back where it should be
Tell me where you are — a booked-in EHO visit, a rating you need to fix, or allergens you are not confident in. No obligation, no jargon.