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330,494 cafés, coffee shops, takeaways and caterers from the Food Standards Agency's food-hygiene register — how the FSA rates them, what kinds of businesses they are, and where they cluster. Aggregate counts only; no premises is named.
The rating is the FSA's own assessment, not ours. 330,494 of the 330,494 premises carry a published rating value. England, Wales and Northern Ireland use the 0–5 Food Hygiene Rating Scheme; Scotland uses the separate pass/improvement Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS) — both are shown below, verbatim.
| Rating | Premises | % of rated |
|---|---|---|
| Rated 5 — Very good | 201,677 | 61.0% |
| Rated 4 — Good | 35,410 | 10.7% |
| Rated 3 — Generally satisfactory | 17,610 | 5.3% |
| Rated 2 — Improvement necessary | 4,537 | 1.4% |
| Rated 1 — Major improvement necessary | 3,788 | 1.1% |
| Rated 0 — Urgent improvement necessary | 603 | 0.2% |
| Pass (Scotland FHIS) | 21,347 | 6.5% |
| Pass and Eat Safe (Scotland FHIS) | 154 | 0.0% |
| Improvement Required (Scotland FHIS) | 2,162 | 0.7% |
| Awaiting inspection | 37,878 | 11.5% |
| Awaiting publication | 41 | 0.0% |
| Exempt | 5,287 | 1.6% |
By the FSA's own business-type classification.
| Business type | Premises | % of classified |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants, cafés & canteens | 147,905 | 44.8% |
| Other catering premises | 82,211 | 24.9% |
| Takeaways & sandwich shops | 66,523 | 20.1% |
| Mobile caterers | 33,855 | 10.2% |
Average rating is computed over numerically-rated (0–5) premises only — Scottish FHIS areas have no numeric scale, so their average shows as —.
| Local authority | Premises | Avg rating (0–5) | % rated 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | 6,374 | 4.19 | 60.9% |
| Westminster | 4,246 | 4.46 | 69.6% |
| Glasgow City | 4,193 | — | — |
| Manchester | 4,165 | 4.42 | 67.6% |
| Leeds | 4,151 | 4.62 | 72.7% |
| Buckinghamshire | 4,091 | 4.67 | 78.2% |
| North Yorkshire | 3,329 | 4.70 | 82.3% |
| Edinburgh (City of) | 3,183 | — | — |
| Somerset | 3,142 | 4.82 | 86.8% |
| Cornwall | 3,120 | 4.77 | 84.5% |
| Highland | 3,036 | — | — |
| Camden | 2,740 | 4.16 | 55.2% |
| Sheffield | 2,739 | 4.58 | 72.5% |
| Bristol | 2,736 | 4.62 | 74.8% |
| Dorset | 2,728 | 4.93 | 95.4% |
| Fife | 2,628 | — | — |
| Liverpool | 2,541 | 4.18 | 59.4% |
| Bradford | 2,445 | 4.48 | 68.5% |
| Durham | 2,299 | 4.57 | 71.6% |
| West Northamptonshire | 2,187 | 4.61 | 77.1% |
| Tower Hamlets | 2,122 | 4.50 | 72.2% |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 2,099 | 4.81 | 87.6% |
| Cardiff | 2,085 | 4.45 | 67.2% |
| Kirklees | 2,071 | 4.55 | 70.5% |
| Southwark | 2,009 | 4.56 | 70.1% |
| Ealing | 2,008 | 4.00 | 52.3% |
| Wiltshire | 1,867 | 4.68 | 80.3% |
| Croydon | 1,857 | 4.44 | 62.6% |
| Wandsworth | 1,828 | 4.64 | 78.7% |
| Coventry | 1,820 | 4.60 | 75.4% |
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Claim your free compliance scan →Source. All establishment facts come from the Food Standards Agency food-hygiene open data (the FHRS bulk file), covering the FSA's café/restaurant, takeaway/sandwich-shop, mobile-caterer and other-catering business types. Ratings are the FSA's own published verdicts, stored and aggregated verbatim — including Scotland's separate FHIS scheme — never our own assessment. This snapshot was computed 18 Oct 2026; statistics are recomputed at most every 24 hours.
Independent vs chain. The independent/chain split is CafeGuard's own derivation — a name-match against a blocklist of national hospitality chains — and is the one figure on this page that is not the FSA's.
What this page is not. It is not a per-premises lookup and it names no business. For any individual establishment, always check the current rating on ratings.food.gov.uk.
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