BaxterStorey scores 2/5 hygiene rating for some British Airways lounges

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I wrote back in June about the wall of criticism that had met the switch of British Airways lounge catering from Compass Group to BaxterStorey. Although, when I tried it, it had settled down a bit.

The results, as per the picture below, certainly weren’t pretty. However, I didn’t think that the problems were more structural.

Courtesy of IThink at Flyertalk, though, we now have the food hygiene certificate that was issued to BaxterStorey for the British Airways First Class lounge and Concorde Room catering in July:

Ever seen a venue with a ‘2’ rating before?

Interestingly, Plane Food in Terminal 5 also scores a ranking of 2.

Since some pressure appears to have been brought to bear on FlyerTalk to change the heading of the relevant thread on that forum to something less likely to attract a lawsuit, I would suggest that comments to this post are carefully considered before pressing ‘Submit’ ….

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