Restaurants selling through Just Eat will have their official Food Hygiene Rating displayed directly on its website and app under new plans announced by the food delivery platform.
The move follows talks with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), and will begin with a trial of the initiative in Northern Ireland in early 2019 with over 600 restaurants. A national roll-out will be implemented later in the year, following full evaluation of the trial.
Just Eat already provides a link to the FSA’s website on each restaurant partner’s menu page so that customers can access food hygiene ratings, however the modification will make ratings instantly visible in-app and online.
The CIEH, which is calling for the mandatory display of Food Hygiene Ratings in food outlets across England, welcomed the move as a positive step. “Openly displaying food hygiene ratings next to food outlets on their website will not only help consumers make the best and safest decision about where to eat, but also promote best practice,” said CEO Anne Godfrey.
Earlier this year Just Eat launched a trial to ask customers to opt-out of receiving plastic cutlery, straws and sauce sachets as part of a package of measures to reduce excess plastic included in UK takeaway food deliveries.
