Hygiene Rating Alerts, for wholesale and drinks
Find food businesses new to the register in your area, before their first inspection.
A food business registers with its council before it starts trading, and the register lists it as awaiting inspection.
A new food business appears on the register before its first inspection, with the date it was recorded.
Wholesalers and drinks distributors often meet a new venue after its first orders have gone elsewhere. The register lists the business, its type and its premises while it awaits its first inspection.
The alert gives you the new businesses in your area as they appear in our copy of the register, with the business type and the company behind it, so you decide who to call first.
Which changes matter to you
New business awaiting inspection
A business on the register that has not been rated yet, with its type and premises address.
Rating fall
A published fall, with the rating before and both dates.
Re-inspection requested
The register's own flag, public and dated.
Rating rise
Recorded so the history is complete.
A real example, read for wholesale and drinks
From Hygiene Rating Alerts. Real, checked against Companies House, at least seven days old.
What changed. The Sapphire Garden, a pub or bar in South Oxfordshire, is on the food hygiene register awaiting its first inspection. It is in Harrier's copy of 16 September 2026 and was not in the copy of 15 September.
Where. South Oxfordshire, RG4 9NP, South East of England
Harrier Assessment: The establishment is in Harrier's copy of the food hygiene register and was not in the copy before it, and its business type says what kind of venue it is. The register gives the local authority, the business type and the address.
Check. Whether The Sapphire Garden Ltd is already an account, whether RG4 is on your delivery routes, and the business type on the register, a pub or bar here.
Three things to check first
Is it already an account
The company is named and linked on every alert.
Is it on your routes
The premises postcode and a map link.
What type of business is it
The register's business type, on every alert.
Try it for 14 days, free
No card required. Your first briefing, then two weekly briefings. Choose whether to subscribe when your trial ends.
Common questions
Does it show every new pub and restaurant?
It shows the ones we can match to a registered company, and every briefing gives the count of those left out.
Can I choose only new businesses?
Yes. The classes are a setting.
What area does it cover?
England and Wales through the Food Standards Agency's register. You choose the territory.
Can I use this for sales?
Alerts name businesses, never people, and use the premises address only. Where we cannot match a company the alert says so. Your own marketing rules still apply.
When does it start?
Today. Start the fourteen-day trial, verify your address, and the first briefing is prepared for your area. Nothing is charged.
Also read for
EPOS and card payments
A new venue on the register is a dated reason to ask how it takes payments.
For epos and card payments →Catering equipment
New food businesses waiting for their first inspection, as the register lists them.
For catering equipment →Pest control
A fall in the rating is a dated, public fact about the premises.
For pest control →