A takeaway restaurant in Southall has been ordered to pay £6,800 after admitting serious food hygiene offences, with its director ordered to pay a further £2,020.70.
SAI20 Limited, trading as Abi Fast Food at 233 The Broadway, alongside its director, Velventhan Ganesalingham, were prosecuted after Ealing Council officers repeatedly found unsafe food storage, poor cleaning and contamination risks at the premises.
The council began investigating following a routine inspection in January 2025. Officers found meat curries being kept at unsafe temperatures, risks of cross-contamination, poor cleaning, inadequate staff training and no properly functioning food safety management system.
Hygiene improvement notices were served, but a follow-up inspection in March 2025 found they had not been complied with. Staff were unable to answer basic food safety questions, while safety records were blank or incomplete.
A further inspection in May 2025 found around 20kg of curries, rice and meat dishes being stored at room temperature instead of under refrigeration.
Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court heard that a toilet also continued to open directly into a food preparation room despite earlier advice from officers.
The company and Mr Ganesalingham pleaded guilty to six offences each when the case was heard on 8 July 2026.
The takeaway was also given a food hygiene rating of zero following a further inspection on 28 January 2026. Inspectors found that improvement was needed in hygienic food handling, major improvement was needed in the cleanliness and condition of the premises, and urgent improvement was required in its management of food safety.
SAI20 Limited was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £4,000 in costs and an £800 victim surcharge, taking its bill to £6,800.
Ganesalingham was fined £600 and ordered to pay £1,180.70 in costs and a £240 victim surcharge, bringing the combined total for the company and its director to £8,820.70.
Councillor Kamaljit Nagpal, Ealing Council’s cabinet member for decent living incomes, said: “Food businesses have a legal duty to ensure the food they sell is safe for their customers. In this case, officers found serious and repeated failures, despite giving advice and serving formal notices requiring improvements.
Councillor Nagpal added: “Our food safety team works hard to protect residents and visitors. The council will continue to take action against businesses that put public health at risk by failing to meet basic food hygiene standards.”
