Jamaica Inn hotel fined for health & safety breaches

"A famous South-west hotel has been heavily fined after environmental health inspectors found kitchens in a filthy state,” reports Caterer Search.

Caterer Search continues, “Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall pleaded guilty before Bodmin magistrates to breaches of the health and safety legislation.”

“The owners of the hotel Five Star Taverns were fined £7,000 with £2,900 costs.”

“The court was told that health inspectors were shocked when on a visit they found grills and cooking surfaces encrusted with food debris and mold.”

“An inspector told the court the risk of contamination was high, that cleanliness and hygiene standards were poor overall and that there was no documented food safety management system. Staff training was also found to be inadequate.”

“In mitigation it was said that hygiene standards at the hotel had now been upgraded in line with environmental health inspectors recommendations.”

“Built in 1750, Jamaica Inn was originally a coaching inn and then became a hideaway for smugglers because of its remote location.”

“It was made famous by Daphne Du Maurier’s book of the same name.”

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