Raw beef on drainboard. Grimy kitchen containers. Worst Greenville restaurant inspections in July

Unwashed hands during food prep, raw beef on a drainboard, grease and grime on containers in the kitchen were among the violations found by health inspectors in July,

Inspectors overseen by the S.C. Department of Agriculture visited 186 Greenville County restaurants and four were given the worst grade — C — during a routine inspection.

The top grade — A — was given to 162 restaurants.

The worst grade went to Konnichiwa of Greenville on Falls Park Drive. It scored 76.

Among the violations were a food employee eating and smoking or vaping in a food prep area and a drink uncovered in the same area. Drink cups were used for scooping ice into customers cups.

Raw sushi fish, molluscan shellfish, fruits and vegetables were improperly stored, some ready to eat food was on the floor below raw chicken.

Food was stored at improper temperatures and pork was not marked with a throw-away date.

Open boxes of tempura batter, three types of rice and brown sugar were not covered to prevent contamination. A wet wiping cloth was on the counter of the sushi station instead of in sanitizer.

Cardboard served as a shelf liner in the kitchen. Numerous empty 5 gallon plastic containers with a buildup of grease, grime and accumulation of water on top were seen throughout the restaurant.

Bul Go Gi Korean Grill on East North Street scored 82

The inspector found a food employee scooping improperly cooked chicken onto a customer’s plate, partially cooked chicken at the wrong temperature and raw beef on a drain board of a three-compartment sink. This was listed as a consecutive violation.

Two containers of vegetable stock, cream cheese with onions and carrots did not have prep or discard date and Kimchi exceeded seven days. In addition, cut lettuce, cooked chicken, and raw eggs were not labeled with date and time.

Tenderized steak was improperly cooked and yellowfin tuna served raw. The restaurant needed a permit to process fermented shrimp with salt.

There was a box of frozen chicken thawing on a table top.

La Choza on White Horse Road in Greenville scored 84.

An employee did not wash hands properly after leaving the kitchen, a consecutive violation, and food was not marked with discard dates.

Consecutive violations might be referred to enforcement. Cooked food was in aluminum trays inside a cooler with no date markings, water dripped from air conditioning into a dishwashing sink. No sanitizer or soap in the manual dishwashing sink.

No backflow device was on the hose at the manual dishwashing sink The spray nozzle at the pre wash sink at a mechanical ware washer hanging below flood plain of sink.

Voila on Hammett Bridge in Greer scored 87.

Food employee did not wash hands after retrieving an unclean plate from the dish machine and doomed new gloves.

Ready-to-eat food was not labeled in the reach-in coolers with prep or discard date, including potatoes, chicken, turkey, ham, cream cheese, goat cheese, cooked vegetables, and lentil soup cooked peppers exceeding seven days.