Mayor wants no more Grade C food outlets
Published on: Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Kota Kinabalu: Mayor Datuk Yeo Boon Hai has urged all quarters, especially eatery owners in the city to maintain an excellent level of cleanliness in order to live up to Kota Kinabalu's name as one of the best places in the world to retire.Yeo said the City Hall has always put much emphasis on the cleanliness level of eateries within the city and hoped that each premise is clean all the time."Kota Kinabalu has been ranked as one of the top ten best places in the world to retire (according to the 2016 Retire Overseas Annual Index) recently.
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"Even the delegates from Hangzhou who visited the city recently had given positive words on Kota Kinabalu… they said the city is clean and beautiful."As such, I hope everyone, especially food premise owners to provide their full cooperation to take care of the cleanliness of the city for the benefit of all," he said during the special briefing for Grade C eatery owners at City Hall, here, on Tuesday.According to him, the briefing aimed to provide guidance for premise owners to achieve Grade B and above as well as legislation on cleanliness."We hope all eatery owners who obtained a Grade C rating will cooperate with City Hall to improve their cleanliness level.
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"The Grade C certificate displayed on the premises will displeasure patrons as the eateries are assessed as 'unclean'. At the same time, it will also reflect badly on the eatery owners as the public will know that their premises are not clean.
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"People surely will not patronise a dirty eatery."Currently, there are 215 premises rated Grade A in the city while 745 premises were rated Grade B and 40 premises with Grade C within the city. Towards this end, he hoped to see no more Grade C rated food premises by next year."Let us all take the responsibility together to maintain the cleanliness of each premise so that patrons and visitors will see that Kota Kinabalu is a clean city," he said, adding that the City Hall has conducted various programmes to ensure such objectives were attained.Yeo said, one of them is the food waste separation programme which was launched early this year at Damai Point area, involving 29 food premises."The result is extremely good through our monitoring and data collection. One of the significant impacts is the reduction of the collected garbage weight. This could extend the lifespan of the garbage disposal centres and there were no complains on bad odour due to leachate. "Nuisance due to stray dogs could also be overcome as there are no food waste being thrown."Hence, I hope all eatery owners in the city separate their food waste and the City Hall will guide them on the method to do so."Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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