Canterbury · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Canterbury kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Canterbury
Canterbury City Council rates hundreds of restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Canterbury eats out across the cathedral city: the food of St George's Street and the High Street, Burgate, the Whitefriars quarter, St Peter's Street, Palace Street, and the Northgate food hall. Add EKC Canterbury College, the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and the three universities, and you have hundreds of kitchens across the city on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what stands behind a good rating when the Canterbury inspector arrives. We clean well beyond a nightly close-down - the surfaces, the equipment inside and behind, and the structure, from a greased extract canopy over a St George's Street range to the grouting under a Whitefriars kitchen - to the standard an environmental health inspection actually scores.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer gives a Canterbury kitchen rests on three things checked on the day, and a deep clean shifts two of them.
How food is prepped, cooked, cooled and stored on your line - your practice, but it stands on genuinely clean surfaces and equipment underneath it.
The state of the structure and equipment - the pillar a deep clean lifts directly, from a carbonised St George's Street range wall to the grouting in a Whitefriars kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Canterbury EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Canterbury cooks on - not a surface wipe.
Cook lines stripped and degreased, fryers and ranges emptied and cleaned through, canopy and baffle filters cleared, stainless brought back to a shine, walls and ceilings washed off, cold rooms and fridges sanitised, and the baked grease behind the hot line that a closing wipe never reaches. From one Burgate range to a cathedral-city-scale production kitchen, we fit the work around service - overnight or on a rest day - and hand over a dated record of every job done.
On the ground in Canterbury
We are in Canterbury's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A Burgate takeaway in Canterbury had thick fryer grease coating the wall behind the range and a sticky film over the extraction louvres. We stripped the louvres for a chemical soak, degreased the tiled wall and range surround and sanitised the prep counters, clearing the build that had dropped the food-hygiene score. The clean was fitted around the tourist-trade lunch service so the counter kept trading.
When to book
Usually before the inspector, not after.
Before an FHRS re-inspection, after a rating that needs lifting off a 2 or 3, at a Northgate handover or a new Whitefriars opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Canterbury kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Canterbury City Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Canterbury kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Burgate kitchen has to reopen the next day.
Surfaces, equipment and structure - deep, and behind the hot line where the grease hides.
A dated record of what was cleaned, for your file and the next Canterbury EHO visit.
Questions
Daily cleaning keeps surfaces usable between services. A deep clean reaches what that never does - behind and beneath fixed equipment, inside ovens, fryers and extraction canopies, and across walls, ceilings and floor junctions. It is the part of a Burgate or Whitefriars kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new Northgate opening, a change of operator or a Whitefriars lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
It targets exactly what the council's officers score on the physical side - the condition and cleanliness of structure and equipment, from a greased St George's Street extract to the grouting on a Whitefriars line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
Yes - from Burgate and Whitefriars to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Whitefriars independent is usually a night, a cathedral-city-scale production kitchen several. We scope it on the walk-round and work around your service so you lose no covers.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to a Northgate landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy St George's Street line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
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