Taco Bell food hygiene ratings
There are 162 Taco Bell 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. 11 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 Taco Bell scores
95% of rated Taco Bell branches hold the top score of 5, and 99% hold a 4 or better. The chain averages 4.94 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 | 135 | 95% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 out of 5 | 6 | 4% | |
| 3 out of 5 | 1 | 1% | |
| 2 out of 5 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1 out of 5 | 0 | 0% | |
| 0 out of 5 | 0 | 0% |
A further 20 branches are awaiting inspection, exempt, or in Scotland, none of which sit on the 0–5 scale.
Lowest-rated branches
Not one Taco Bell branch in the country currently sits at 2 or below.
Questions about Taco Bell
What is Taco Bell's food hygiene rating?
Taco Bell does not have a single rating. Every one of its 162 UK sites is inspected and rated separately by its own local council. 95% of them hold the top score of 5, and the chain averages 4.94 out of 5.
Is Taco Bell clean?
By the only measure a regulator publishes, 95% of Taco Bell 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 Taco Bell has the worst hygiene rating?
None. No Taco Bell branch in the UK currently holds a rating of 2 or below.
Who inspects Taco Bell?
Not Taco Bell. 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 Taco Bell branches.
Birmingham, Sheffield, Milton Keynes, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, West Suffolk, Bradford, Havering, Leeds
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 Taco Bell.