Owner of Chinese restaurants fined for hygiene offences

28th July 2010, 12:29pm

A London restaurant owner has been fined £30,000 for a series of food hygiene offences, according to media reports.

Officers visited the Kam Tong, Hung Tao and Kiasu restaurants to find traces of mouse droppings, cockroach eggs and rodents on the premises.

Owner Ronald Lim has pleaded guilty to 17 offences. He was ordered to pay a hefty fine of £30,000 plus £18,131 costs and was given an eight month jail term suspended for two years.

The ventures were shut down between May and August in 2008 but have since reopened its doors. 

Brian Connell, Westminster City Council's cabinet member for business, enterprise and skills, said this restaurant was in an awful state when the inspectors visited the site: "This is an appalling catalogue of offences and gives an otherwise good industry a bad name.

"This person was not running these restaurants to the levels of hygiene which are required and which customers rightly expect."

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