US President Donald Trump reportedly loves McDonald's because he's a bit OCD when it
comes to his food and he likes the consistency of them as well as the fact that it's pre-made.
This way people are unable to either poison or spit in his food.
But like most things Trump thinks or says, he's not really correct about the food being
pre-made.
Sure, a lot of the time, especially when it's busy, the food will have been made before
you ordered it based on the expectation that people will buy X-amount of Big Macs Y-amount
of cheeseburgers etcetera, but when it's not busy your food is being made when the order
comes through and thus there's a chance that if you're rude to the cashier, or a famous
person, they might do something to your food.
This video is proof of that.
We're bringing you the Top 10 most disgusting things fast food workers have done to food!
Wendy's Employee Deep Throats Frosty Machine
Now that Dave Thomas is dead, Wendy's is mostly most well known for it's Frosty's.
The super thick and delicious frozen treat is so good that it offsets the weird feeling
you get while eating a square-shaped hamburger.
Wendy's is aware of this and used that fact, combined with the other fact that McDonald's'
ice cream/shake machine is broken more often than not, to troll McDonald's with a savage
Tweet back in 2017.
So, it's hard to blame this now former Wendy's employee who posted a video of himself eating
a vanilla Frosty straight from the machine (and probably giving himself the world's worst
ice cream headache in the process).
The video went viral and Wendy's promptly fired him while using the Tweet announcing
that fact to also announce that they were "reinforcing proper procedures" with employees.
So not only did he get fired he also forced a meeting on every Wendy's employee.
Dave Thomas must be turning in his grave.
Taco Bell Employee Licks Shells It was theorized that the Wendy’s deep throat
incident was a response to this "prank" as they both occurred in the same month back
in 2013.
This offense happened at a Taco Bell in Ridgecrest, California and almost tore the internet apart
as people questioned whether it was a joke or real and whether even if it was a joke
it warranted discipline for the employee or whether people were overreacting and needed
to just needed to relax.
The problem here was that people weren't aware of the context, which was sanctioned by the
company and asked it's employees to share pictures of themselves "enjoying a first bite"
of their Taco Bell product of choice.
Regardless, it wasn't a good look for Taco Bell, which was in the middle of a lot of
PR nightmares earlier this decade.
So, they suspended the employee instead of firing him, as he was participating in the
contest by licking shells that were going to be thrown away anyways.
It makes this list because of the uproar, the conversation(s) it started and also the
copycats it birthed.
It's safe to say he won the contest, right?
Maybe not.
Taco Bell Employee Pees on Nachos
The last entry in this video mentioned that Taco Bell was in the midst of PR nightmares
at the time and one of the main reasons that that nightmare existed was thanks to a former
employee named Cameron Jankowski.
Jankowski worked at the Fort Wayne, Indiana Taco Bell and was participating in what may
be the trashiest Twitter contest of all-time.
Hunter Moore, who was the owner of a revenge porn website, basically asked his 108k to
participate in what he called "#pissolympics" and because if you followed Moore you were
sort of a scumbag, Jankowski decided that he'd urinate on the food that the restaurant
that employed him made while at work and on the floor of his employer.
The image went viral and he was first suspended and then fired for the "prank", however, he
did win the contest so at least he's got that going for him.
Burger King Employee Outed by 4Chan
This is the first entry in this video that was responsible for the firing of more than
one employee, as Burger King ended up firing three of its workers over this "Prank" that
was posted to the website 4Chan, you know, 4Chan, the darkest corner on the internet.
In the post, the user showed himself stomping on bins of lettuce in a post titled "This
is the lettuce you eat at Burger King".
Surprisingly, members of 4Chan were so appalled by the image that they used the GPS data that's
attached to every cell phone picture to figure out the location of the Burger King in the
photo, which ended up being in Cleveland, Ohio.
The members first contacted the local media in Cleveland and went a step beyond that by
figuring out the phone number and thus name and address of the employee in the photo.
The entire investigation took 15 minutes, and the shift manager at the Burger King in
question said that the person in the picture was a long time employee and that he and the
shift managers on duty at the time were both let go.
Different Restaurant.
Same Licking Incident.
You'd think that after all the negative press and effects on one's employment status that
people that work at fast food restaurants would stop posting images of themselves doing
things like the following online, especially when they're doing the exact same thing that
caused an uproar in the past.
However, in the day and age where people feel validation from the number of clicks, likes,
and attention they get online, perhaps they just can't help themselves.
Regardless of the "Why?"
behind it, there was another incident of a fast food employee posting a picture of himself
licking the food that they serve.
In this instance, the taco shells were replaced with mashed potatoes and Taco Bell was replaced
with KFC.
The KFC located in Johnson City, Tennessee, immediately fired the employee and said that
the potatoes weren't served to customers.
Ironically, KFC is owned by the same company that owns Taco Bell, so maybe they need to
look at their hiring policies to avoid bringing in people that seem to want to lick things
and maybe those people can get a gig licking stamps at the post office instead.
McDonald's Worker Spits in Customer's Drinks
In April 2012, a South Carolina McDonald's joined the list of fast food restaurants dealing
with PR disasters.
In this instance, an employee at a restaurant in Greenville County actually didn't post
a video or picture online but rather was seen on a surveillance video spitting in two different
customers' cups of iced tea.
The employee should probably go to the doctor, as the reason that they were caught was that
when the customers opened up their drinks to add sugar, they both noticed phlegm in
the drink and immediately contacted the police.
The employee was fired and it turned out that they were fed up with people bringing their
sweet teas back because they weren't "sweet enough".
Unlike other instances on this list McDonald's corporate didn't release a statement, however,
the owner of the franchise in question asked that people "not to reach conclusions until
all the facts come out".
The facts included phlegm, so, maybe he should've chosen his words more wisely.
Domino's Up His Nose...
One of the earliest instances of a video of a fast food employee going viral happened
in April of 2009.
An employee of Domino's, before they rebranded themselves and remade all of their stores
to be fancier, filmed his soon to be former co-worker putting cheese up his nose, blowing
mucous on a sandwich and putting a sponge meant for washing dishes "between his buttocks".
As you would guess is typical by now, the employees stated that the food (and hopefully
the sponge) was immediately thrown away and not served to anyone, but because of the obvious
bad look for the company, both were fired.
The entire restaurant ended up getting "re-staffed" and the franchise owner was also given a strict
talking to about company culture and went as far as to post an apology from the President
(and soon to be CEO) of the company on YouTube.
Looking back, four years later, a Domino's spokesperson did say that the video did nothing
to hurt their sales or a global brand and that they actually had an increase in sales
in 2009, so maybe it's true, any press is good press.
Burger King Bath
Burger King is maybe best known for its flame-broiled burgers like the Whopper, so it makes sense
that the employees that work hour after hour, day after day, may sometimes need to cool
off after spending all day taming that flame.
That's the best rationalization I can come up with for the fact that an employee at the
Xenia, Ohio Burger King, who was at least self-aware enough to refer to himself as "Mr.
Unstable" in the video, got completely naked and took a bubble bath in one of the sinks
used to clean the cooking utensils used to make those flame broiled masterpieces.
Burger King stated that they had sanitized the sink and "disposed of all other kitchen
tools and utensils that were used in the incident".
A good rule of thumb: if you think that your employer is going to end up referring to what
you're about to do as "the incident", perhaps don't do it.
A Subway PR Disaster
Subway rose from second-rate sandwich fast food place to the number one fast food restaurant
in the world thanks to its marketing plan that focused on how healthy it was as compared
to other fast food options.
The face of that campaign was Jared Fogle, who lost hundreds of pounds eating at Subway
and ended up being a complete monster of a human being.
Not to be undone, a couple of "Sandwich Artists" from the Columbus, Ohio Subway (or at least
one of the Subway's in Columbus) were fired for rubbing their genitals on bread, making
bread that looked like penises and peeing in water bottles and freezing them.
They posted their exploits to Instagram with titles like "Today I froze my pee" and "My
name is @ianjett and I will be your sandwich artist today", which clearly made for a major
PR disaster for a company that really didn't need additional branding issues.
Huffington Post talked with Mr. Jett, who claimed that the images were taken at home,
not at work and were a "joke".
The person who reported the images to Subway said; “I saw the frozen piss picture and
thought, what is this guy doing” the tipster said.
“Then came the penis picture.
They’re stupid enough for doing this in the first place, but then to post it to the
world?
It was a dumb move."
Indubitably.
The Jack in the Box Fast Food Disaster
There's a scene in the classic film, Super Troopers, in which a couple of fast food workers
spit in one of the Trooper's sandwiches (amongst other things that they do).
Broken Lizard, the fellas behind Super Troopers may have had inspiration from the first documented
incident of a fast food employee defiling the food they're paid to make.
This incident happened way back in 1990 at a Jack in the Box in Phoenix, Arizona.
Reportedly, one of the employees at Jack in the Box, George Juan Kuehme blew his nose
into the burgers of two police officers who came through the drive-thru.
Kuehme was employed for less than a week at the Phoenix, Restaurant when the incident
happened and was noticed by one of the officers.
Officer Gary Underhill had taken three bites from his sandwich when he noticed "something
wrong".
Beyond that, another worker had overheard Kuehme say "That's what the cop gets" after
serving the burgers.
The incident was the first of it's kind and pre-dated the internet (at least as we know
it) and was so detrimental to Jack in the Box's brand that they stopped advertising
on radio and TV in the Phoenix area, mostly because of all of the "jokes on local radio
stations".
Beyond Kuehme, a second unidentified employee was fired over the incident and Jack in the
Box contributed $2,000 to a police fund as well.
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