QUALITY ACCREDITATION CHAMPION

The National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF) has named The Fish Works, Largs, as its Quality Accreditation Champion as part the 2023 National Fish & Chip Awards.

It’s a fact that today, fish and chips are still Britain’s number one takeaway. The NFFF Fish & Chip Quality Accreditation Scheme is all about finding those shops throughout the UK that give their customers the BEST QUALITY fish and chips, assessing them against our quality benchmark and rewarding successful applicants who pass the assessment and the taste test, with the ‘BIG Q’ Quality Accreditation sign.

Launched in December 2020, replacing the previous NFFF Quality Award, The NFFF Fish & Chip Quality Accreditation is a scheme aimed at improving standards and rewarding shops that provide top quality fish and chips in a clean, hygienic, and safe environment.

To reach this stage, The Fish Works were required to demonstrate that they met the NFFF’s quality benchmark which included assessment of the overall quality of premises, working practices, key ingredients, cooked products, hygiene standards and staff training. Most importantly, it looked at how businesses promoted the significance of this quality mark to customers.

Award sponsor Andrew Crook, President at The National Federation of Fish Friers, added: “Launched in 2020, this platform is offered to the industry to improve operating standards and showcase best practice to UK wide consumers. The NFFF Quality Award also now works in conjunction with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and Primary Authority as part of the appraisal and accreditation process for the award.

“The standard of entries received this year was very high and the judges were impressed by the dedication The Fish Works put into promoting this award.”