Chatham · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Chatham kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Chatham
Medway Council rates around 2,000 restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Chatham eats out across the Medway towns: the pedestrianised Chatham High Street and the Pentagon centre, the food of Military Road and Railway Street, the waterside dining and Dockside Outlet at Chatham Maritime, and the historic Rochester High Street. Add the Universities at Medway, Medway Maritime Hospital and Priestfield Stadium, and you have thousands of kitchens across Medway on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Chatham inspector calls. We go well past a nightly wipe-down - the surfaces, the equipment inside and behind, and the fabric of the room, from a grease-laden canopy over a Chatham High Street range to the grout under a Dock Road kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer gives a Chatham 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 Chatham High Street range wall to the grouting in a Dock Road kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Chatham EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Chatham cooks on - not a surface wipe.
Cooking lines stripped and degreased, fryers and ranges cleaned out, the extract canopy and filters cleared, stainless polished, walls and ceilings washed down, fridges and cold rooms sanitised, and the carbonised grease behind the hot line that a nightly close-down never touches. From a single Railway Street range to a riverside-scale production kitchen, we work around your service - overnight or on a close day - and leave a dated record of exactly what was done.
On the ground in Chatham
We are in Chatham's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A dockyard heritage cafe in Chatham had coal-soot particulate mixed with pastry fat settled over the high timber ceiling panels and display counters. We hand-wiped the structural woodwork with dry sponges, degreased the pie heaters and steam-scrubbed the tiled areas, bringing it back to a hygienic standard without touching the period look. We kept off high-pressure washing to protect the delicate early-twentieth-century tongue-and-groove ceiling.
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 Pentagon handover or a new Dock Road opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Chatham kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Medway Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Chatham kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Railway Street 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 Chatham 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 Railway Street or Dock Road kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Railway Street or Dock Road site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
It targets exactly what the council's officers score on the physical side - the condition and cleanliness of structure and equipment, from a greased Chatham High Street extract to the grouting on a Dock Road line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
Yes - from Railway Street and Dock Road to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Dock Road independent is usually a night, a riverside-scale production kitchen several. We scope it on the walk-round and work around your service so you lose no covers.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Chatham High Street line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
Yes - ranges, ovens, fryers, griddles, extraction canopies, fridges and cold rooms, plus the structure around them. Chatham kitchens span the full range, from a single Railway Street independent to a riverside-scale production line.
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