Costcutter food hygiene ratings
There are 502 Costcutter 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. 52 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 Costcutter scores
50% of rated Costcutter branches hold the top score of 5, and 78% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.15 out of 5, behind the roughly 70% of all UK food businesses that manage a 5, so it is worth checking the specific branch rather than trusting the name.
| 5 out of 5 | 222 | 50% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 out of 5 | 125 | 28% | |
| 3 out of 5 | 62 | 14% | |
| 2 out of 5 | 4 | 1% | |
| 1 out of 5 | 24 | 5% | |
| 0 out of 5 | 4 | 1% |
A further 61 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.
Lowest-rated Costcutter branches
32 branches hold a rating of 2 or below, including 4 rated 0. That is 7% of Costcutter's rated sites. A low rating is not a closure order, the business is required to fix what the inspector found.
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| Branch | Council | Rating | Inspected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Costcutter Hyde SK14 1RH | Tameside | 0 - Urgent improvement necessary | 12 February 2026 |
| Costcutter PE30 5JP | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 0 - Urgent improvement necessary | 8 January 2026 |
| Costcutter OL8 1NW | Oldham | 0 - Urgent improvement necessary | 13 November 2025 |
| Costcutter Belle Green WN2 2ET | Wigan | 0 - Urgent improvement necessary | 31 July 2025 |
| Costcutter E17 9BU | Waltham Forest | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 20 May 2026 |
| Costcutter UB3 1EA | Hillingdon | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 5 May 2026 |
| Costcutter LS23 6BT | Leeds | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 30 April 2026 |
| Costcutter Supermarket RM13 8QR | Havering | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 9 February 2026 |
| Costcutter SW2 2TJ | Lambeth | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 16 January 2026 |
| Costcutter SM3 9PL | Sutton | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 17 December 2025 |
| Costcutter PO5 1QT | Portsmouth | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 4 December 2025 |
| Costcutter B34 7NA | Birmingham | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 25 November 2025 |
| Costcutter Kettering Road NN1 4BP | West Northamptonshire | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 12 November 2025 |
| Costcutter Minster ME12 3LR | Swale | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 15 October 2025 |
| Costcutter WV13 1JB | Walsall | 1 - Major improvement necessary | 1 September 2025 |
Questions about Costcutter
What is Costcutter's food hygiene rating?
Costcutter does not have a single rating. Every one of its 502 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 50% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.15 out of 5.
Is Costcutter clean?
By the only measure a regulator publishes, 50% of Costcutter branches were found to have very good hygiene standards at their last inspection. But a rating describes a branch, not a brand, and 32 branches score 2 or below.
Which Costcutter has the worst hygiene rating?
The lowest-rated branches are listed on this page, worst first. 32 hold a rating of 2 or below out of 441 rated sites.
Who inspects Costcutter?
Not Costcutter. 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 Costcutter branches.
Birmingham, Fife, Edinburgh (City of), Lambeth, Bristol, Sandwell, North Yorkshire, Lewisham
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 Costcutter.