Do food hygiene ratings affect your choice of restaurant?

We ask people in Birmingham

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00:00Yeah, so we always look at food hygiene ratings. They're very, very important. I'd never go

00:06anywhere that's below a four. Five, obviously, is even better. And I also have a friend that

00:11works in environmental health, so she expresses how important it is as well, so we do take

00:15note of it.

00:17The answer is yes, it would put me off massively. I have been in the past to restaurants which

00:23I don't go to now, not because of the food hygiene rating, but because of what we've

00:28seen the chefs in the kitchen and what they're wearing. So I think, yeah, food hygiene's

00:32a big, big no-no for me if it's lower than a four or five.

00:39Yes, a bad rating would put me off. I tend to read the local reports in Birmingham, where

00:45the food standards, where they announce which have got poor reports. I don't think it'd

00:51affect me booking it, but when I go in, I do look at the star ratings on the door, and

00:56if it was low, that would put me off.