Winchester · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Winchester kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Winchester
Winchester City Council rates around 1,150 restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Winchester eats out across the ancient city: the cultural quarter of Jewry Street, the High Street, the independents of Parchment Street, Southgate Street, the Broadway by King Alfred's statue, the cathedral precinct of Great Minster Street, and the Brooks centre. Add the University of Winchester, the Royal Hampshire County Hospital and Winchester Cathedral, and you have well over a thousand kitchens across the city on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Winchester 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 Jewry Street range to the grout under a Southgate Street kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer gives a Winchester 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 Jewry Street range wall to the grouting in a Southgate Street kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Winchester EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Top to bottom and into the equipment, across the whole range a Winchester kitchen runs - not a wipe-down.
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 Parchment Street range to a cathedral-city-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 Winchester
We are in Winchester's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A Jewry Street brasserie in Winchester had charred fat crusted inside the chargrill canopy and grease over the floor behind the range. We soaked the canopy filters, scraped the plenum and cooking suite back to metal and machine-scrubbed the safety floor, leaving the city-centre kitchen sterile for its hygiene audit. It was fitted into a Monday closure so the busy dining street lost no covers.
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 Brooks handover or a new Southgate 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 Winchester kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Winchester City Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Winchester kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Parchment 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 Winchester 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 Parchment Street or Southgate 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 Parchment Street or Southgate 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 Jewry Street extract to the grouting on a Southgate Street line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to a Brooks landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Jewry Street line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
Yes - from Parchment Street and Southgate Street to the suburbs, and across the wider Hampshire.
Yes - ranges, ovens, fryers, griddles, extraction canopies, fridges and cold rooms, plus the structure around them. Winchester kitchens span the full range, from a single Parchment Street independent to a cathedral-city-scale production line.
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