Pizza Hut shut down and fined £30,000 after rats gnawed on jalapenos packaging and sauce pots

Pizza Hut has been fined implicit £30,000 aft rats gnawed connected condiment pots and jalapenos packaging.

Officers recovered rat droppings, gnawed nutrient products, mediocre pest-proofing and “a deficiency of cleanliness”.

In follow-up visits the assembly recovered inadequate cleaning practices passim the restaurant, raising concerns astir surfaces utilized to hole food.

Pictures from the assembly visits amusement rat gnaw marks connected sliced greenish jalapenos pizza topping packaging.

Rat droppings and gnaw marks were besides recovered connected condiment pots nether shelving successful the storeroom.

The Pizza Hut subdivision was handed a one-star hygiene rating.

The sole institution manager of Exultant Limited, Mizan Syed, who is the franchisee astatine the Pizza Hut takeaway, instantly and voluntarily closed the premises owed to an imminent hazard to nationalist health.

Mr Syed from High Wycombe, pleaded not guilty.

At the decision of the prosecution’s lawsuit connected the archetypal time of proceedings connected September 16,  Mr Syed made an exertion of ‘no lawsuit to answer’.

After proceeding Mr Syed’s defence the District Judge recovered him blameworthy of each charges.

The edifice was fined a full of £30,586.52 for breaching nutrient information and hygiene regulations.

Exultant Limited was fined £20,000 with costs of £1,258.41 portion Mr Syed was fined £2,000 with costs of £6,528.41 and a surcharge of £800.