THE boss of an unhygienic takeaway where staff had filthy aprons and prepared food in sweatshirts and jogging bottoms will learn his punishment next month.

Conditions at New Bodrum on Bootham were so bad, environmental health officers gave zero stars, the lowest rating in the Scores on the Doors scheme, when they visited it on February 15, said Victoria Waudby, prosecuting.

They served an improvement notice requiring boss Hasan Redvan Musa, 23, to clean up the building and put it in proper order among other changes.

When they made a repeat inspection on April 13, he had complied with the notice, but the takeaway still had problems including not telling customers about the soya in its kebabs.

Musa, of Fifth Avenue, Tang Hall, and his company Has & Az Food Ltd of Bootham, York, both pleaded guilty to three food hygiene offences. They admitted failure to keep food premises clean and in good maintenance, failure to ensure staff were clean and wore suitable clothing and failure to provide wash basins for them.

His case was adjourned until February 26 so that he can produce his company accounts.

For him Adam Henry said: “It is not a flagrant disregard of the regulations.”

Musa was “somewhat naive” and had inherited some of the problems when he bought the business in January 2017.

When told about the failings, he had taken steps to rectify them, but he had been hampered in some cases by lack of money.

The takeaway was his first business venture. He had worked in the UK fast food industry for about four years.

Since the inspections, he had given the business back to the previous owner, said the solicitor, and not received a penny for it.

Musa said he had bought the business for £6,000 and had rented its premises for about a year.

York magistrates heard the company may soon be struck off because it has not filed any accounts. Musa said the accounts had been handled by his now former accountant and he had never asked for them.