Card Factory food hygiene ratings
There are 523 Card Factory sites in the United Kingdom with a published food hygiene rating. Each is inspected by its own local council, the chain does not rate itself, and a rating earned in one town says nothing about the branch in the next. 39 sites are in Scotland, which uses a pass-or-improve scheme rather than a score out of five, and so are not counted in the figures below.
How Card Factory scores
99% of rated Card Factory branches hold the top score of 5, and 100% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.99 out of 5, a strikingly consistent record, well above the roughly 70% of all UK food businesses that manage a 5.
| 5 out of 5 | 80 | 99% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 out of 5 | 1 | 1% | |
| 3 out of 5 | 0 | 0% | |
| 2 out of 5 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1 out of 5 | 0 | 0% | |
| 0 out of 5 | 0 | 0% |
A further 442 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.
Lowest-rated branches
Not one Card Factory branch in the country currently sits at 2 or below.
Questions about Card Factory
What is Card Factory's food hygiene rating?
Card Factory does not have a single rating. Every one of its 523 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 99% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.99 out of 5.
Is Card Factory clean?
By the only measure a regulator publishes, 99% of Card Factory branches were found to have very good hygiene standards at their last inspection. But a rating describes a branch, not a brand, though in this case not one branch sits at 2 or below.
Which Card Factory has the worst hygiene rating?
None. No Card Factory branch in the UK currently holds a rating of 2 or below.
Who inspects Card Factory?
Not Card Factory. Environmental health officers at each site's local council carry out the inspection, unannounced, and set the rating. The Food Standards Agency publishes the result. A chain cannot rate itself, and cannot change a rating.
Where the branches are
The councils inspecting the most Card Factory branches.
Birmingham, Durham, North Yorkshire, Leeds, Dudley, Bromley, Havering, Glasgow City
Other chains
Data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland under the Open Government Licence. Branches are identified from the business names councils publish; one trading under an unusual name may not be counted here. This site is not affiliated with Card Factory.