Food Safety & HACCP Consultants & A Leading Provider of Accredited Training
About us and services we offer
Kitchen Tonic Food Safety Consultants are a team of qualified experts, including Food Safety, Microbiology, and Nutrition graduates, as well as a local authority Environmental Health Officer (EHO). We help businesses improve their Food Hygiene Ratings, conduct regular Food Safety Audits, and maintain high food hygiene standards. Our services include implementing the Safer Food, Better Business pack, developing allergen information and writing bespoke HACCP plans.
Kitchen Tonic offers high-quality, Ofqual-regulated training courses (levels 1-4) in Food Hygiene, Health & Safety, HACCP, Allergen Management, First Aid, and Nutrition. We provide tailored training for individuals, community groups, and businesses, including both Food Manufacturing and Catering sectors.
Kitchen Tonic Consultants and Trainers bring many years of hands-on experience in the food industry, working across both public and private sectors. Our team has audited fast food chains, independent shops, logistics, retail, and restaurants, providing expert consultancy, training, and auditing services.
What sets us apart is that our consultants and trainers are experienced practitioners. This means they are continually updating their skills and knowledge, ensuring that every candidate and client receives the most current, relevant advice and information.
Training provision
We are dedicated to improve safety standards and strive to deliver high quality interactive and appealing training. If requested, we can provide a customised service for you, your company and your staff training needs. We can provide training for new members of staff such as induction training and refresher training when needed. Our trainers can come to you and deliver training on-site at your venue.
Our training courses are cost effective, flexible and catered to suit your needs as a client. We have provided training to food and drink manufacturers, logistic companies, sports venues, media and TV companies, caretakers, chefs, cooks, pubs, farms, community groups, pop-ups, retailers, butchers, charities, private chefs to celebrities, high street restaurants, food packaging manufacturers and many more. We also work with adult education centres in London providing trainers for their food hygiene courses and other registered centres.
Consultancy services for food manufacturers, caterers, retailers, wholesalers, artisans and more.
HACCP Plans: We specialise in developing robust HACCP documentation, tailored to your business needs. From sushi and sashimi to burgers, butchers, cakes, patisserie, bread, and biscuits—our consultants have extensive experience in a wide variety of sectors.
Food Safety Policies & SOPs: We create bespoke Food Safety Policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that align with your operations, ensuring regulatory compliance and enhanced food safety practices.
Approved Food Premises Application: Our expert Environmental Health Officer (EHO) can assist you in your application for Approved Food Premises.
Food Hygiene Ratings and Safer Food Better Business Services
(Specific services for catering, retail and care sectors)
Prepare for Success – Improve or Maintain Your Food Hygiene Rating with Expert Support
Your Food Hygiene Rating is vital to your business’s reputation, customer trust, and success. Whether you’re aiming to maintain your current rating or improve it, we can help you prepare for your next inspection with confidence.
We specialise in providing tailored support to help businesses achieve their best rating. Our experienced consultants will conduct a thorough assessment of your operations, focusing on areas identified by the Environmental Health Officer (EHO) or any potential gaps that may affect your score.
How we can help:
- Preparation for Inspection: We ensure your business is fully prepared, so you can confidently face your next hygiene inspection.
- Tailored Action Plans: We work with your team to implement corrective actions specific to your needs, whether it’s maintaining or improving your score.
- Ongoing Support: We’ll help you adopt best practices in food safety, ensuring long-term compliance and excellence.
A higher hygiene rating means improved customer confidence, better reviews, and increased sales. Let’s work together to make your food safety practices shine!
Safer Food, Better Business: Need assistance with completing and implementing your Safer Food, Better Business pack? Contact us today, and we'll not only help you fill it out, but also provide expert guidance on how to use it effectively. We will also help prepare any monitoring forms require and prepare your allergen information.
Contact details
Contact us today to discuss your business requirements and for a no obligation quote
Tel: 07837655954
email: info@kitchentonic.com
or contact us through our online portal
Case studies
Case study 1 - 2023/2024
We were contacted by a Middle Eastern restaurant in Ealing London. They had been given a Food Hygiene Rating of 1. They had been marked down for a vastly inadequate Food Safety Management System, a unhygienic premises, lack of allergen information, lack of training, poor stock control and labelling, poor maintenance and lack of monitoring procedures. As a result of being issued a low hygiene rating, they were no longer allowed to sell food via 3rd party delivery platforms. They then made the headlines in the local newspaper, which was also not good for business.
We worked quickly with the company, implementing Safer Food Better Business, developing monitoring forms and updated their allergen information. Staff received training in food hygiene and allergens, the kitchen was deep cleaned, equipment was repaired and as was property structural maintenance issues, a stock control and labelling system was implemented and the company reduced the amount of different brand chemicals they were using.
The business then applied for a paid reinspection and the same EHO awarded them a Food Hygiene Rating of 5. All of this was achieved within 5 months. The staff and owner were thrilled, as they had never achieved more than a 3 previously. Furthermore, the restaurant was then awarded a Food Hygiene trophy from Ealing Council for being the most improved business within the borough.
We continued to support the restaurant through regular food safety audits to help them maintain their new rating and hygiene standards. In November 2024 they were awarded another Food Hygiene Rating of 5.
Case study 2
In 2023, we wrote a bespoke HACCP plan for a Sushi and Sashimi restaurant and takeaway in London. This sushi business contacted us, as they had to accept a voluntary closure notice issued by the council EHO. They had to stop selling food immediately, which included selling on 3rd party delivery websites and were given a Food Hygiene Rating of 0.
The voluntary closure notice was issued, as they had no documented evidence that showed they had identified the hazards and controls for preparing and selling sashimi and sushi rice. It was also issued for lack of documentation and monitoring of hazards, poor personal hygiene, lack of cleaning, storing chemicals next to food, lack of maintenance, lack of training, poor stock control and labelling. Although they were using Safer Food Better Business, it was not being implemented and was not suitable for sushi and sashimi food business.
Kitchen Tonic worked quickly with this company. We developed a bespoke HACCP and Food Safety Management System, identifying their hazards and control measures. We developed a monitoring system and documentation, wrote their pre requisites and developed a review policy. We conducted food safety audits, to point out areas that needed improvement. Staff were trained, the kitchen was deep cleaned and everything was given a dedicated labelled storage area. After everything was developed, implemented and all staff were comfortable, the company then applied for a paid reinspection. Within 4 months from our initial input, this company was awarded a Food Hygiene Rating of 5 on their reinspection.
This case, highlights our experience and the sushi companies hard work to drive up and attain excellent levels of food hygiene in such a short time period.
We continue to support businesses with routine food safety audits, updating allergen information and providing training.