One register with every food business in the UK, tracked daily since 2022, and several ways to read it. The fastest is to just ask.
Type what you want to know, the way you'd say it. The explorer turns it into a query over the register, shows its working, and links the answer straight into the data, so every number is a thing you can click into and check.
Not sure what to ask? Inspire me deals you a question, and Chat keeps the thread going so “and only takeaways?” works as a follow-up.
Try a questionSearch a town, a postcode or a name and see every rating on the register, straight from the FSA.
What changed on the register: openings, closures, takeovers and every rating move, daily.
Every council side by side: rating breakdowns, inspection backlog, and how both are moving.
Takeaways, restaurants, schools and care homes. Every type’s ratings, drilled to any area.
Every branch of a chain on one screen, or one street’s worth of ratings. The two ways people actually compare.
Every establishment’s full history: rating moves, takeovers, premises. Save a search and check the live FSA record on demand.
Most of the explorer is open to everyone with no account. A free account lifts the daily caps and lets you save your work. There is no paid tier and no card to enter; the caps on anonymous use are there to keep the service fast and our costs sane.
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| Change feed: openings, closures, takeovers and rating moves, updated daily | ✓25 most recent per view | ✓Everything, 100 per page |
| National dashboard: maps, headline counts and authority league tables | ✓ | ✓ |
| Authority pages: rating breakdowns, trends, postcode districts and time to first published rating | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business history: premises timeline, takeover detection and a live FSA register cross-check | ✓ | ✓ |
| Safest-areas and closure-rate rankings, adjusted for authority size | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business-type league tables and drill-downs: takeaways, pubs, supermarkets and more | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business search with typo tolerance, filters and recently closed businesses included | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chain league tables and per-chain pages with every outlet mapped | ✓Outlet table shows 25 | ✓Full outlet listings |
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| Ask questions in plain English and get charted answers | ✓3 questions a day | ✓100 a day, fair use |
| Suggested questions, follow-ons and Inspire me | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chat: a conversation over the data, with follow-up questions | ✗ | ✓ |
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| Save views and questions, and pick up where you left off | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full result tables past the first 25 rows, with paging and sorting | ✗ | ✓ |
| Question ideas by email (optional, coming soon) | ✗ | ✓Opt in at sign-up |