Overview
- Fifty takeaways and ten restaurants were selected nationwide after months of secret assessments covering food quality, cleanliness, staff expertise, value, ordering and social media.
- Pass marks were set at 97% for takeaways and 96% for restaurants, and several businesses achieved perfect 100% scores.
- Regional standouts include Churchill’s in Eastbourne as Sussex’s only honouree, eleven Yorkshire takeaways, and Trenchers of Whitby in the restaurant top 10.
- Lancashire winners include the mobile Country Fried in the Ribble Valley and Westend Fish and Chips in Oswaldtwistle, while Cumbria counted three takeaway winners and Penrith’s Shap Chippy in the restaurant top 10.
- Organisers noted pressures from higher wages, energy bills and fish prices; winners receive plaques and a new Hopkins eight-piece utensil bundle, with all entrants receiving mystery-dining reports.