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Check SC Restaurant Ratings

Use our search tool, below, to find recent sanitation/food safety scores for nearly 17,000 restaurants, delis, school cafeterias, grocery stores, retail meat markets, bakeries and seafood markets in South Carolina. Each score is a snapshot in time of an establishment's practices and cleanliness during a recent DHEC inspection; it may not represent how an establishment always operates. Scores listed are for both unannounced routine "R" and follow-up "F" compliance inspections.

What Ratings Means

Grade A - The food service establishment earned 88-100 points. Its sanitation and food safety practices scored appeared to be in the 'acceptable to very good' range during DHEC's unannounced routine inspection.

Grade B - The facility earned from 78-87 points. Its sanitation and food safety practices appeared to be in the 'marginal to acceptable' range during DHEC's unannounced routine inspection.

Grade C - The food service earned from 77-70 points. Its sanitation and food safety practices appeared to be in the 'poor to marginal' range during DHEC's unannounced routine inspection.

All restaurants and food service establishments are required to post their most recent DHEC rating signs at their facility.

Search Tool Tips

When typing in a facility's name, try to use the correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation, if known. For example, if you want information on a local Applebee's but type in Applebee or Applebees, the search may not work.

If you don't know the exact spelling, etc., or you're having trouble finding a listing for a particular food establishment, try one or both of these search tips:

• For Facility Name, type the % symbol before and after a portion of the name of the food establishment. For instance, for Applebee's you could type %Apple% or %bee%. (The % symbol is located above the number 5 on your computer keyboard.)
• If that doesn't work, you might also try changing the City Name. Remove the City Name you typed in originally, and replace it with the name of a nearby town or city. For example, if your search for a restaurant in James Island doesn't work, type in Charleston.