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Curry
house fined over cockroach
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The owners
of a well-known Manchester curry house have been fined for the second
time this year. This time it was £40,000 after a diner found a
live cockroach in his poppadoms.
The Shere Khan
restaurant, on Rusholme's famous "curry-mile", a haunt of
the rich and famous, was later found to be infested with insects
during a health inspection.
The
restaurant, which also has several branches and is part of the Awan
family's £30m curry empire. The owners admitted eight food
safety breaches before Manchester magistrates.
The court were
told that live insects were found on sacks of rice and crawling
across the floor. The floor was covered in a "soup of grease,
dirt and food debris", equipment was dirty, a plate rack was
rusted and chopping boards were covered with old food.
The inspectors
warned the owners that they would shut the restaurant unless they
volunteered to close themselves, which they did. On a return visit
five days later, most of the problems had been sorted out.
A Shere Khan
representative said: "The restaurant is part of a big group and
the senior management's eye was taken off the ball with the
day-to-day handling of the business in the hands of those who were
not up to the job."
The company
was also fined £30,000 for breaching food hygiene standards at
its Trafford centre outlet in May.
Director of
Shere Khan, Nighat Awan was named Asian businesswoman of the year
four years ago. She was also awarded an OBE in 2004.
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