Apprentice winner Alana Spencer’s luxury cake shop is given ONE STAR hygiene rating as inspectors rule ‘major improvements’ are needed
- Ridiculously Rich by Alana diner in Cardiff Bay was visited by inspectors in June
- Inspectors ruled that improvements were needed in ‘hygienic food handling’
- Alana Spencer, 29, won 2016 cycle of The Apprentice and received £250,000
Apprentice winner Alana Spencer’s luxury cake shop has been given a one-star hygiene rating following a visit from inspectors.
Ms Spencer, 29, who won £250,000 after she was picked by Lord Alan Sugar as the winner of the 2016 BBC series, blamed the rock-bottom rating on a ‘paperwork’ issue.
But when the Ridiculously Rich by Alana diner in Cardiff Bay was inspected in June, officials ruled improvements were needed in ‘hygienic food handling’.
They also said ‘major improvements’ were needed in the ‘management of food safety’.
Alana Spencer (pictured), 29, said the one-star rating was due to a paperwork issues and that it would be corrected
In a statement on Facebook, Ms Spencer, who has opened four locations around Wales since winning the show, said the low hygiene ranking at the Cardiff shop was ‘misleading’ and vowed it would be corrected.
She said: ‘As many food businesses will tell you this can be a very misleading and unfair system and you can rest assured that this is no reflection on how clean my premises are.
‘This situation will be resolved imminently.
‘There was an administrative error in our paperwork.
‘The environment health office are aware and have already been booked in for a re-inspection.
All food and drink establishments in Wales are ordered to display their hygiene rating on the doors of their property after council inspections (Pictured: One-star hygiene rating at Alana Spencer’s eatery)
‘We are confident in achieving full marks.’
All food and drink establishments in Wales are ordered to display their hygiene rating on the doors of their property after council inspections.
The one-out-of-five-star rating comes after Ms Spencer’s restaurant suffered a string of negative TripAdvisor reviews since opening earlier this year.
One customer titled their review ‘Ridiculously Rude’ and said they had been left ‘bitterly disappointed’ by the experience.
Another two-star review said: ‘This visit to the Cardiff shop was very disappointing,’ while another said simply ‘get more staff’.
In 2017 her home delivery service was forced to recall products because they had failed to list potential allergens on the packets.
The Food Standards Agency said the blunder had led to a ‘possible health risk’.
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