Inside the filthy London pizzeria where mouse droppings were found piled up in the kitchen
It has been shut down by the courts and must pay £4662.44 after 14 breaches in food safety and hygiene were found
A LONDON pizzeria has been shut down and must pay £4662.44 after the council found mouse droppings in the kitchen, raw food stored next to cheese and dirt all over the food prep areas.
Apple Pizza, in Edmonton, north London, has a history of poor hygiene, including a bad cleaning regime since 2012. Despite repeated warnings from Enfield Council, the pizzeria quite literally failed to clean up its act.
Photos of the grimy and grubby takeaway restaurant show filthy wiring sprinkled with food, a rusty and dirty chip pan and the floor littered with mouse droppings.
The owner, Kamran Javadpour, of Upton Road - where the pizzeria is - pleaded guilty to 14 breaches in food safety and hygiene.
The 48-year-old was given an eight-week-sentence on June 2, suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay an £80 victim surcharge. At the sentencing at Tottenham Magistrates' Court the company was fined £2,000, ordered to pay £2,542.44 in costs and a £120 victim surcharge.
Enfield Council's cabinet member for environment, Councillor Daniel Anderson, said: "It is completely unacceptable for food businesses to put residents at risk through shoddy working practices and poor basic hygiene and we will take action when we find those failings.
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"We work with food outlets in Enfield to raise standards, but where businesses are unwilling or unable to meet the standards we expect we will close them down and prosecute, as we did in this case.
"The public, rightly, has a presumption of safety when they order a takeaway or eat out, and food outlets which do not meet appropriate safety standards are needlessly endangering the public and putting people at risk and we will not tolerate this type of behaviour."
Following a routine inspection on February 10, 2015, Apple Pizza agreed to an immediate voluntary closure, and was instructed to call in a pest control company to tackle the mouse infestation, while a deep clean was also carried out.
It was revisited the next day and because hygiene standards had improved, the pizzeria was allowed to reopen. The decision was then taken to prosecute Mr Javadpour and the company, and Apple Pizza is now closed.
The Sun Online attempted to contact Apple Pizza for comment.
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