But with such popularity, customers might be surprised to learn how such a favorite place to dine measures up in its county health and safety reports.

No so good.

In early March, the restaurant received a report card of “major violations” from county health inspectors. Problems included water/sanitizing violations. That typically involves problems with dishwashing, and food temperature preparation, meaning food was not being cooked at proper temperatures. A re-inspection report showed great improvement.

“They are dealing with raw fish and I am very picky when it comes to what seafood I eat,” said sophomore Lindsay Sanders, a self-proclaimed sushi fan and regular at Tokyo Café. “I would go there less if I knew about a bad report.”

Such a report comes as quite a surprise to some patrons. Jonathon Trackwell, a grad student, enjoys getting cheap and tasty sushi there as well, was confident in the cleanliness at Tokyo Café because the kitchen is in full view of patrons.

Tokyo Café isn’t alone in having to clean up its act.

The Orange County Health Care Agency’s Food Protection Program conducts more than 26,000 annual inspections of restaurants and places with pre-packaged food (like your 7-Eleven stores). More than 5,000 required follow up visits by health code inspects based primarily on either major violations or a high number of minor violations. And 459 restaurants in the county were actually forced to shut their doors until major violations could be reversed—nearly half that number because of cockroach infestation.