Lancing · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Lancing kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Lancing
Adur District Council rates hundreds of restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Lancing eats out along North Road, South Street and the parades of South Lancing, and in the kitchens of Lancing College, the seafront cafes and the larger employers on the business park. Every one of those kitchens answers to the same inspection standard, whether it plates a hundred covers a night or feeds a single boarding house.
A deep clean is what stands behind a good rating when the Lancing 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 Penhill Road range to the grouting under a South Street kitchen - to the standard an environmental health inspection actually scores.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer gives a Lancing 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 Penhill Road range wall to the grouting in a South Street kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Lancing EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Lancing 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 North Road range to a 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 Lancing
We are in Lancing's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
The cook line at a busy Lancing bakery was carrying a layer of carbon and grease, with light mould showing in the walk-in. We degreased and sanitised all the food-contact surfaces, decarbonised the hot plates and cleaned in behind the prep benches. The kitchen went on to pass its next food-safety check comfortably. We scheduled it for a Monday when the place was closed, and left photos and paperwork for the records.
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 Crabtree Lane handover or a new South Street opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Lancing kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Adur District Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Lancing kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a North 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 Lancing 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 North Road or South Street kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a North Road or South Street site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to a Crabtree Lane landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
It depends on the kitchen - a small South Street independent is usually a night, a town-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 Crabtree Lane opening, a change of operator or a South Street lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Penhill Road line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
Yes - from North Road and South Street to the suburbs, and across the wider West Sussex.
Local knowledge
Lancing College, founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848, crowns the Downs above the village behind the largest school chapel in the world, a Gothic Revival landmark whose tower is visible for miles along the Sussex coast. Below it the college kitchens plate meals for some six hundred boarders and staff, while the village fills its own cafes and tea rooms with visitors who come to see the chapel and walk Lancing Ring. Every one of those kitchens answers to the same food-hygiene standard, whether it feeds a full boarding house or a single seafront cafe. A deep clean of canopies, filters and hard-to-reach surfaces is what keeps an inspection on the right side of the line.
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