Nisa food hygiene ratings

There are 724 Nisa 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. 74 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 Nisa scores

61% of rated Nisa branches hold the top score of 5, and 83% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.30 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.

All 638 rated Nisa branches in the UK
5 out of 5 389 61%
4 out of 5 139 22%
3 out of 5 58 9%
2 out of 5 19 3%
1 out of 5 30 5%
0 out of 5 3 <1%

A further 86 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.

Lowest-rated Nisa branches

52 branches hold a rating of 2 or below, including 3 rated 0. That is 8% of Nisa'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
Nisa Local LE3 3JT Blaby 0 - Urgent improvement necessary 10 March 2026
Nisa Local CO16 8JB Tendring 0 - Urgent improvement necessary 3 November 2025
Nisa Local RH6 9TA Reigate and Banstead 0 - Urgent improvement necessary 6 February 2025
Nisa Local KT10 0JG Elmbridge 1 - Major improvement necessary 17 April 2026
Nisa Local Morningside CW3 9NH Newcastle-Under-Lyme 1 - Major improvement necessary 15 April 2026
Nisa Patbro Supermarket WF12 8LW Kirklees 1 - Major improvement necessary 10 March 2026
Nisa Local LL52 0EY Gwynedd 1 - Major improvement necessary 25 February 2026
Nisa Local WA1 3SP Warrington 1 - Major improvement necessary 24 February 2026
Nisa Local Yeading Lane UB5 6LN Ealing 1 - Major improvement necessary 14 January 2026
Nisa Local HP1 1BA Dacorum 1 - Major improvement necessary 13 January 2026
Nisa Local HU12 8HP East Riding of Yorkshire 1 - Major improvement necessary 9 October 2025
Nisa Local CF38 1SB Rhondda Cynon Taf 1 - Major improvement necessary 2 October 2025
Nisa Local - Kempston Food & Wine MK42 8BB Bedford 1 - Major improvement necessary 3 September 2025
Nisa SL4 6LT Windsor and Maidenhead 1 - Major improvement necessary 3 September 2025
Nisa Local M8 4WA Manchester 1 - Major improvement necessary 1 September 2025

Questions about Nisa

What is Nisa's food hygiene rating?

Nisa does not have a single rating. Every one of its 724 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 61% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.30 out of 5.

Is Nisa clean?

By the only measure a regulator publishes, 61% of Nisa branches were found to have very good hygiene standards at their last inspection. But a rating describes a branch, not a brand, and 52 branches score 2 or below.

Which Nisa has the worst hygiene rating?

The lowest-rated branches are listed on this page, worst first. 52 hold a rating of 2 or below out of 638 rated sites.

Who inspects Nisa?

Not Nisa. 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 Nisa branches.

Birmingham, Leeds, Fife, Greenwich, Glasgow City, Coventry, Newham, Camden

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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 Nisa.