Inverness · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Inverness kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene inspection result.
Inverness
Highland Council rates hundreds of restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
The city eats out along Church Street and Academy Street and down on the riverside at Ness Bank, from hotel dining rooms to Old Town bistros and coach-tour caterers. Add the messes at UHI Inverness, Raigmore Hospital and the larger employers, and every one is held to the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Inverness 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 Church Street range to the grout under a Castle Street kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Information Scheme result an officer awards an Inverness 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 Church Street range wall to the grouting in a Castle Street kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence an Inverness EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Inverness 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 Union Street range to a 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 Inverness
We are in Inverness's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A bar and grill kitchen in Inverness had grease worked into the worktops and splashbacks around the range, with limescale around the sinks. We carried out a full deep clean, degreasing, decarbonising and sanitising all surfaces, and pulling out the appliances to clean behind them. The kitchen was left clean and food-safe, and we provided the supporting paperwork for their records.
When to book
Usually before the inspector, not after.
Before an FHIS re-inspection, after an Improvement Required result that needs turning around to a Pass, at a Ness Bank handover or a new Castle Street opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps an Inverness kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Highland Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Inverness kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Union 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 Inverness 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 Union Street or Castle Street kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Church Street line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Castle Street independent is usually a night, a city-scale production kitchen several. We scope it on the walk-round and work around your service so you lose no covers.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new Ness Bank opening, a change of operator or a Castle Street lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
Yes - from Union Street and Castle Street to the suburbs, and across the wider the Highlands.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Union Street or Castle Street 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 Church Street extract to the grouting on a Castle Street line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a result down.
Local knowledge
Inverness Castle, the red-sandstone Victorian building of 1836, stands over the river on the site of far older strongholds and is reopening as a Highland visitor attraction. The cafes and kitchens serving that trade are inspected like any other. We deep-clean commercial kitchens across Inverness - canopies, filters, walls and equipment - and document the work, so a hygiene visit finds surfaces that hold up to scrutiny and paperwork that backs them.
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