According to a report from Martyn McLaughlin, Scottish inspectors found “dirty chopping boards and appliances, food handlers failing to wash their hands properly, and sausage meat found to be nearly three months out of date.” As McLaughlin noted, these issues would be concerning for an everyday café, let alone one of the world’s leading resorts owned by a former president.
Authorities told the Aberdeenshire property that it had to make a “raft of improvements … after an array of cleanliness of food and safety issues saw the high-end hotel and golf resort fail to achieve a [passing] grade under a national food hygiene scheme.”The former president has hailed Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire as “among the greatest” resorts in the world. But inspectors found “a build-up of dirt and debris in various areas of the kitchen, including beneath fryers, a fridge, and a shelving unit beside the oven.”
Officials also noticed a problem with how food handlers washed their hands. “They ended up contaminating them instead of cleaning them,” The Scotsman noted, “Having used their hands to turn off a tap instead of a paper towel. Elsewhere, a freezer unit was found to be broken, a door seal on a fridge damaged, and surfaces ‘not effectively [sanitized].”
A local authority told management at the resort that the final verdict on the report was “disappointing.”