Didcot · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Didcot kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Didcot
South Oxfordshire District Council rates hundreds of restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Didcot eats out across the town: the food of the Broadway, the Orchard Centre, Station Road, Wantage Road, Lydalls Road, Mereland Road, Cockcroft Road, and Foxhall Road. Add the local college, the Didcot Community Hospital and Didcot Railway Centre, and you have hundreds of kitchens across the town on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Didcot 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 Broadway range to the grout under a Lydalls Road kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer awards a Didcot kitchen is built from three things on the day, and a deep clean moves 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 Broadway range wall to the grouting in a Lydalls Road kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Didcot EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Didcot 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 Wantage Road range to a science-town-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 Didcot
We are in Didcot's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A Station Road takeaway in Didcot 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. Phosphate-free chemicals met the local water run-off rules.
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 Foxhall Road handover or a new Lydalls 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 Didcot kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition South Oxfordshire District Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Didcot kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Wantage Road 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 Didcot 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 Wantage Road or Lydalls Road kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new Foxhall Road opening, a change of operator or a Lydalls Road lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to a Foxhall Road landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Lydalls Road independent is usually a night, a science-town-scale production kitchen several. We scope it on the walk-round and work around your service so you lose no covers.
It targets exactly what the council's officers score on the physical side - the condition and cleanliness of structure and equipment, from a greased Broadway extract to the grouting on a Lydalls Road line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Wantage Road or Lydalls Road site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Wantage Road and Lydalls Road to the suburbs, and across the wider Oxfordshire.
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