r/Portsmouth • u/Majestic_Analysis_54 • 4d ago
Madgwick responds to one star hygiene rating
The News picked up on the one star hygiene rating:
Strudwick came up with a load of dog ate my homework excuses in the article, but of course Madgwick has taken to his favourite platform to claim it's all victimisation. Does he have to be such an insufferable squinny about everything? If the restaurant had been to standard you wouldn't get a one star, simple. For a wannabe hard right strongman he's very fragile.
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u/CreepyTool 4d ago
I love the fact he or anyone thinks the council is even remotely joined up enough to coordinate this conspiracy.
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u/Majestic_Analysis_54 4d ago
However, what we are talking about here is a straightforward environmental health inspection, which him and his girlfriend have pretty much admitted they weren't up to scratch, she just gives lots of excuses and he goes for the persecution angle. If George thinks he's being persecuted, as a councillor he can go to the head of the department and ask for an explanation. He isn't, so he won't - he'll just chat shit about it online.
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u/Eek_1978 4d ago
As someone who works in a restaurant, at all times the hygiene standards should be 100%. Regardless of what members of staff are in or who is in charge. To get a 1 star, something is going wrong here. You don’t get that score for nothing. Why is this an attack from the council? Because his restaurant did poorly, it was all the council’s fault? Does he not take any responsibility?
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u/Davina33 3d ago
A post has just gone up about this on Facebook. There's a photo of his restaurant completely empty on a Friday night. I guess word has got round about his 1 star rating now. Nothing surprises me with him. He is very dishonest.
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u/No-Canary-9845 4d ago
Love that they’ve scapegoated the junior chef for not knowing the basic food hygiene questions asked by EHO
If they’ve told the junior chef that they’re to be on site and cooking (So they don’t lose any of their precious profit) They have to take it on the chin when the risk doesn’t pay off.
If the head chef is off because there’s a death in the family and the only other chefs you’ve bothered to hire aren’t up to it, you shut for the day.
Absolute cowboys.
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u/Adorable_Past9114 4d ago
Let's hope it wasn't from food poisoning
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u/No-Canary-9845 1d ago
Probably just an EHO inspection
One star will be awarded for a dirty kitchen with zero confidence in management and zero food safety control
That’ll be everything from poor book keeping on temps etc to food badly stored You don’t get hygiene ratings from people claiming food poisoning
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u/cloudstrifeuk 4d ago
Can't wait for the re-inspection to give 1 star again.
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u/pompino 4d ago
0 stars is possible...lets hope.
As much as I hate him though he's smart enough to make sure he doesn't score 1 again
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u/PersistentBadger 4d ago
0 stars is often a procedural problem - paperwork not being up to date etc. I'd be happier eating at a 0 star restaurant than a 1 star restaurant.
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u/punkfence 4d ago
You don't need a chef present for an EHO visit. Your kitchen should be clean enough and your documents should be well organised enough for you to pass.
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u/G0rdon-Bennet 4d ago
ahh the classic 'im being attacked because they dont like what im saying' angle. What an utter bellend.
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u/mightlisten 4d ago
I’m more interested in the repeated winding up of companies, no filing on the old restaurant. Signing over to girlfriend while retaining the drinks license.
Correlates with the repetitive advertising of £5 meals for so long, smacking of desperation as it flopped.
Has this rebrand happened in hope of limping along until the lease is up?
Love a morning ponder 😂
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u/Dry_Yogurt2458 4d ago
Why is it that he always thinks he is the victim and that the world is against him ?
The man is delusional, nobody cares enough about him to victimise him. He is a little man screaming at his computer screen.
Quite simply a legend in his own four walls.
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u/Illustrious_Study_30 4d ago
Firstly, he's only just reopened that restaurant after " Valetta' failed. The kitchen should be spotless . Secondly, the second inspection is usually arranged immediately die to the low score. I doubt he's getting a second one due to his squinnying.
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u/Davina33 4d ago
Oh of course it's a conspiracy. Poor old George is being attacked once again. It's nothing he has done wrong because he never does anything wrong. That same old chestnut again.
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u/blacktiebartender 4d ago
I would be sending a freedom of info request for the long form report.
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u/PersistentBadger 4d ago
Those really should be published as a matter of course. Having to FoIA them is just making something harder that shouldn't be.
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u/BruiserKarlito 4d ago edited 4d ago
This dork really does sleep with a framed 8x10 picture of the orange gobshite bedside I swear. Never known anyone try so hard to implement the “deny, shift focus, attack” tactic and it look so fucking stupid
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u/Punksnotedd 4d ago
Ah, so it wasn’t their fault for serving unhygienic food, it was the immigrants. Makes sense.
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u/EvilActivity 4d ago
He mentions "multiple businesses", anyone know which ones those are, so I can make sure to avoid them?
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u/vivahate29 4d ago
Go look him up on Companies House - it’s a right laugh. Business after business being compulsory struck off for failing to submit required paperwork.
Almost as if someone doesn’t want to submit a set of accounts…..I wonder why.
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u/Kathryn_Cadbury 4d ago
I got bored after looking up the 5th one. Lets just say if there is one thing he does excel at, it's failure.
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u/ODogRamm 3d ago
It's mad, I have never seen soo many directorships like this, just all over the place. Also came across this: https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/smith-v-signature-by-the-wicks-ltd-1404219-slash-2022
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u/Majestic_Analysis_54 34m ago
Looks like he didn't even turn up for the tribunal. Wonder if the claimant ever got her money she was owed.
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u/Illustrious_Study_30 4d ago
I genuinely couldn't find him on there. ...I'm going to have to try harder . Found the gf.
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u/Web-Hamster 4d ago
i can't wait to take over this council and drain it from certain people
Errr what. The. Fuck.
We cannot allow this mong into any position of power jesus wept
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u/Any-Plate2018 4d ago
Madgwick is going to take over the council and abolish health inspections so that NO ONE can stop him cumming in din dins
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u/mightlisten 4d ago
Just a thought. Multiple wound up companies that have swerved ever filing? He needs an hmrc inspection of earnings/tax paid.
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u/mightlisten 3d ago
Riddle me this… How can a company director, with multiple compulsory strike offs, continue being a director on repeat?
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u/Majestic_Analysis_54 3d ago
I don't know but I wish someone would look into it. This joker wants to become the leader of the council, and looks like he can't run a business for more than five minutes.
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u/TheTinlicker 4d ago
Is this man capable of taking responsibility for anything? It’s absolutely incredible how nothing is ever his fault.
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u/SnapDragon2525 4d ago
My man MadWick jealous the Thai and Curry house down the road had a higher rating.
Perhaps thinks 5* are just for the British.
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u/carefree_badger 4d ago
I read that as, he didn't have time to ensure his businesses were meeting the required health standards because he was distracted.
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u/PersistentBadger 4d ago
"The frequency of inspections depends on the potential risk to public health" - food.gov.uk
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u/payne747 4d ago
And sometimes it's just a shitty restaurant.
This guy thinks everything is a political attack when really it's just a regular one.
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u/AfterCook780 4d ago
When he says drain people in the Council does he mean feed them his food and watch the results?
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u/nosniboD 4d ago
Having worked in kitchens before, the only reason you’d want your head chef there is to bamboozle the inspectors and get them to miss things that haven’t been done.
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u/Illustrious_Study_30 3d ago
He's gone fucking nuts..he's moved on to geese now...🤷
I feel like I'm in a parallel universe.
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u/deepfriedanchovy 4d ago
The fact that the chef was absent does not mitigate the fact the kitchens a shit hole.
Environmental health can inspect whenever they like. That’s why if you have any sort of pride in the establishment you run, you show due diligence, and are compliant with the food safety act.