Lewisham · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Lewisham kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Lewisham
Lewisham Council rates around 2,400 restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Lewisham eats out across the borough: the market and shopping centre of Lewisham High Street, the street market and independents of Deptford High Street, the food of New Cross Road and Catford, and the villages of Blackheath, Sydenham and Honor Oak. Add Goldsmiths University, University Hospital Lewisham and the Lewisham Shopping Centre, and you have thousands of kitchens on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Lewisham 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 Lewisham High Street range to the grout under a Catford kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer awards a Lewisham 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 Lewisham High Street range wall to the grouting in a Catford kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Lewisham EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Lewisham 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 New Cross Road range to a market-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 Lewisham
We are in Lewisham's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A dark-kitchen delivery hub in Lewisham had congealed chicken fat and burger grease coating the walls behind the main hot-line frying equipment. We worked industrial foaming emulsifiers over the structural walls, hand-scraped the fryer chassis and machine-scrubbed the floor tiling, clearing the slip and fire hazards. It was done during a pre-planned overnight server update so the delivery brands had no downtime.
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 Honor Oak handover or a new Catford opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Lewisham kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Lewisham Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Lewisham kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a New Cross 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 Lewisham 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 New Cross Road or Catford kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new Honor Oak opening, a change of operator or a Catford 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 Lewisham High Street extract to the grouting on a Catford line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Catford independent is usually a night, a market-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 Honor Oak landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a New Cross Road or Catford site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - ranges, ovens, fryers, griddles, extraction canopies, fridges and cold rooms, plus the structure around them. Lewisham kitchens span the full range, from a single New Cross Road independent to a market-scale production line.
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