Four out of five Costa’s in Carmarthenshire have a food hygiene rating of five.

By law, each business needs to go through an assessment by the local authority and get graded from one to five.

Five means food hygiene is excellent while zero means urgent improvement is required.

During inspection, assessors focus on three main elements of food hygiene such as:

Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: This includes adequate ventilation to ensure proper food hygiene, hand washing facilities, pest control and an appropriate layout.

Hygienic food handling: Making sure that food is stored, cooled, reheated, cooked and prepared in a hygienic way.

Management of food safety: Ensuring food is safe to eat, evidence that staff know about food safety and confidence from the food safety officer that standards will be upkept.

The ratings mentioned in this article were taken from the Food Standards Agency website and the information is as listed from July 11, 2024.

Parc Trostre Retail Park Costa

Address: 14 Parc Trostre Retail Park, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA14 9UY

Date of inspection: August 17, 2022

Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: Good

Hygienic food handling: Good

Management of food safety: Very good

Rating: 5/5

Trostre Roundabout to Lliedi Roundabout Costa

Address: Costa Coffee Drive Thru, Trostre Roundabout to Lliedi Roundabout
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA14 9WB

Date of inspection: January 9, 2024

Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: Good

Hygienic food handling: Good

Management of food safety: Generally satisfactory

Rating: 4/5

St Catherine’s Walk Costa

Address: Unit 7, St Catherines Walk, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 1GA

Date of inspection: January 11, 2018

Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: Good

Hygienic food handling: Good

Management of food safety: Very good

Rating: 5/5

Pemberton Retail Park Costa

Address: 15 Parc Pemberton Retail Park, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA14 9UZ

Date of inspection: February 20, 2019

Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: Good

Hygienic food handling: Very good

Management of food safety: Very good

Rating: 5/5

Eastgate Stepney Place Costa

Address: Unit 10 Eastgate, Stepney Place, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA15 3YF

Date of inspection: October 6, 2023

Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: Good

Hygienic food handling: Good

Management of food safety: Very good

Rating: 5/5