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There is a critical difference between “use by” and “best before”, and it is what is happening to the food as it ages.
I recommend checking out the toilets of a restaurant to see if the staff care about cleanliness (and consequently food safety). When you complain and get fobbed off, however, that's a totally different level. It doesn't matter what rules you have in place if the culture is just wrong.
A report is currently being misquoted as saying you are twice as likely to get food poisoning from restaurants than from home. We tracked down the original report and discovered that's not what it said. What did it say, and where are you most likely to get food poisoning?
What can be more important than catching up with a friend at a cafe? It turns out the answer is "watching the waitress wipe down everything with a cloth". Now what?
