15 restaurants and hotels lose licence: Reason will shock you!

As a matter of concern towards health issues, licences of 15 restaurants across Bengaluru have been cancelled by the civic body officials after they were found to be unhygienic and had dirty kitchens.

According to The New Minute report, Bengaluru’s civic body officials on Thursday cancelled the trade licenses of 15 dine-in and take-out restaurants in the city as the outlets were unhygienic and had dirty kitchens. Between February and April this year, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) health department officials across the eight zones carried out surprise checks at various dine-in and take-out restaurants, bars and night clubs and found that 15 of them were violating the prescribed hygiene norms.

“Cooked dishes were kept open in these restaurants and flies were gathering around it. The kitchens were dirty and these outlets were not segregating the dry and wet waste either,” Dr Kalpana, Health Officer of the Mahadevapura zone said. She further added that the licences of Box 8, Andhra Ruchulu, Annan Mess, Ruh and Punjabi Nawabi were cancelled.

Meanwhile in Dasarahalli zone, Dr Surendra and his team conducted checks and found that Hotel Elite Restaurant and Karama Hotel had unhygienic kitchens. "The dishes were not washed properly as these hotels had not appointed people to wash dishes. The dishes were dirty and the kitchen equipment was also dirty. The people cooking the food were also not maintaining hygiene,” he added.

According to BBMP health officials, the civic body has sent notices to 20 other eateries in the city regarding unhygienic kitchens in their establishments. The BBMP officials also said that among the 15 restaurants, those with dining spaces had not installed CCTV cameras inside the kitchens.