The Eat Safe Jersey scheme was launched by the Environmental Health department last month, and will ultimately see every business in Jersey that sells food given a rating of up to five stars.
All of Jersey’s Michelin-starred restaurants got top marks, as you might expect, but the news wasn’t so great across the board. A total of 14 restaurants for a “two-star” rating, meaning that they are poor performers on the hygiene law – and two were given a dreaded “no-star” mark, which means that a restaurant or café is a “non-compliant performer, a general failure to comply with the Jersey Food Law with major effort required to rectify issues”.
A spokesman for the Health department confirmed that the new Eat Safe Jersey page – which you can access here – had been a big hit with the public.
Figures for the website showed that traffic had been up by 40% overall.
It’s the second time this month that the States have seen traffic flooding into their websites – their vote.je website crashed temporarily during election night because so many people were trying to get on to check the election results.