You’ll Never Eat At This Fast Food Chain Again After What’s Caught On Camera – Never Seen Before!
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When it comes to fast food restaurants and let’s face it, all restaurants, we can never be too sure these days considering the videos that keep popping up on social media about their cleanliness.
This particular time, a Burger King in Delaware was forced to temporarily close its doors after video surfaced on social media which showed rodents running inside bags of their hamburger buns.
The video was posted by a Wilmington resident Shantel Johnson who recorded the footage from inside the restaurant and posted the video on Facebook. This grabbed the attention of state health inspectors and they took action against the restaurant which was quickly ordered to shut down on June 1st after investigators found rodent droppings inside their burger and chicken rolls. The plastic bags containing the buns had been chewed and upon closer inspection, the pallets the buns were on had rodent droppings.
A spokesperson for Burger King confirmed the restaurant is independently owned and operated. But went on to add that the company will be investigating in order to ensure that appropriate measures are taken so something like this won’t ever happen again.
The restaurant was re-inspected on Monday where the investigators allowed the restaurant to reopen after confirming that all violations had been fixed and proper steps had been taken in order to avoid this happening again.
Here is more on fast food cleanliness via NBC News:
“Critical violations are a benchmark for judging a restaurant’s cleanliness. Most food regulations mandate they be corrected immediately, and they are the only type of violations we counted in our survey. They include things like handling ready-to-eat food with bare hands or unwashed hands, undercooked meat, improper food holding temperatures, sick employees preparing food, and a host of other potentially hazardous problems.
What may shock you is just how many restaurants had critical violations. More than sixty percent of all fast food restaurants in our sample had at least one critical violation in the last year and a half.
How many total violations did each chain have? Here comes Dateline’s dirty dining survey — it’s a top 10 list where no fast food restaurant wants to come in number one:
10: TACO BELL
The 100 Taco Bells we sampled had the fewest total critical violations, 91, making it the best performer in our survey. But it was not without problems. Recurring violations included dirty food preparation counters and rodent droppings.
9. MCDONALD’S
The golden arches, the 100 McDonald’s we looked at came in with a total of 136 critical violations. Some didn’t have a trained and certified food handler on the job, required by law in many states.
8. KFC
The 100 KFCs we sampled tallied up 157 critical violations, and two thirds of the “finger lickin’ good” restaurants had at least one critical violation. Remember, it was at a KFC, the Health Department says, little Gianni Velotta picked up salmonella poisoning last year. We’ve now learned that another child was also sickened there, and the same restaurant has since been cited for three more critical violations.
7. SUBWAY
The 100 Subways we looked at totaled 160 critical violations. A recurring problem at the sandwich chain was improper food holding temperatures.
6. JACK IN THE BOX
The 100 Jack in the Box restaurants had a total of 164 critical violations. A Ventura, Calif., Jack in the Box was a trouble spot. It had several customer complaints of food borne illness.
5. DAIRY QUEEN
The 100 Dairy Qaneens we examined totaled 184 total critical violations. One Dairy Queen in Hampton, Va., rang up a number of critical violations last summer for grime, debris, and a inaccurate thermometer.
4. HARDEES
The 100 Hardee’s tallied 206 critical violations. Again and again inspectors cited the presence of insects and rodents.
Smith-Dewaal: “Rodents and roaches are gross. But more importantly, they can also spread germs from food to food, and carry germs into a restaurant.”
Last May, one restaurant was cited for not having soap in the employee’s sink. Yet, inspectors found employees handling ready-to-eat food with their bare hands.
3. WENDY’S
100 Wendy’s had 206 critical violations. That’s the same as Hardees, but more Wendy’s restaurants had violations. So Wendy’s is number three in our Dateline dirty dining survey.
At a Wendy’s in Mesa, Ariz., inspectors noted repeated problems with food holding temperatures, mice droppings on the shelves, bare hand food contact, and one food borne illness complaint.
2. ARBY’S
The 100 Arby’s had 210 critical violations. The roast beef specialists had recurring violations for improper hand-washing and employees handling ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands.