BBC reveals hygiene breaches at Yates's
A BBC documentary revealed serious hygiene breaches at Yates's in Reading last night.
The Rogue Restaurants programme revealed that staff had been employed with no hygiene training and left to run the kitchen.
Foods, including burgers and sausages, were left uncovered and unrefrigerated for up to three days.
The venue had received a zero score in the Scores on the Doors scheme. The manager and kitchen staff of the Yates's venue have now resigned.
A spokesman for Town & City Pubs said: "The BBC alerted us to some problems at our Reading location.
"This lapse in hygiene and food quality is simply not acceptable.
"Since we received their correspondence the kitchen has been professionally steam-cleaned by an external contractor, the manager and kitchen team have resigned with immediate effect and external food-safety consultants have completed a detailed audit of the site and are working with the local Environmental Health Office to ensure these premises are compliant.
"Customers can be assured that we will not tolerate poor hygiene standards in any of our bars."
Rogue Restaurants also visited a Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) Harvester earlier in the series. M&B has ordered an independent audit of all 156 Harvesters on the back of the BBC's findings.
