you must have noticed stickers pasted on those hotels of the highways. Department of Food technology and quality control had started such a commendable initiative for all the hotels located in the highways of Nepal in 2014.
As per the recommendation, Green sticker is given to excellent hotels.
yellow sticker with one red band denotes medium level of quality, and requires improvement in the quality.
However, the yellow sticker with two red bands is for low quality hotels, which may be serving many other things along with your food including microorganisms not visible to you eye and Red sticker indicates the hotel with bad quality which demands closing of the business. So, Always look for such stickers before entering the hotels and satiating your hunger.
One must be very curious about the basis of the such classification. The classification is based on number of hygiene checklist applied during the inspection.
2. Distance between hotel and highway/road
3. Personal hygiene and grooming
4. Trained and skilled staff
5. Handwash/ Hand towels/ napkins and dryer conditions
6. Condition of water supply system
7. Lighting and ventilation system
8. Kitchen hygience, cleanliness and fire system
9. Food storage ( Perishable and non-Perishable)
10. Condition of store (Dry, chiller fridge) and prepared foods
11. Condtion of kitchen Equipments (Knife/chopping board/ utensils)
12. Condition of wiping clothes
13. Inventory system
14. Pest and Pet animals control system
15. Condition of dish washing area
16. Left over food management
17. Waste management system
18. Record keeping of receiving goods
19. Toilet cleanliness
20. Re-use of cooking oil
the Criteria are rated from 1 to 5, 1 being (worst) Unsatisfacory and 5 being excellent and those hotels scoring above 90% are given green sticker. 70-90% - Yellow with one red band, 50-70%- Yellow with two red bands, Below 50%- Red stickers.
