Two woman working at Waffle House in Arkansas were caught doing something that should not be done in the kitchen of a fast food restaurant!
The employees took finding a hair in your food to a whole new level when one of the women was washing her FULL HEAD of hair using kitchen cooking equipment, the same equipment used to cook customers' food.
“She dipped her hair down in the pot, and when it came back up she was drying it off with one of the towels,” Antonio Robinson told WREG. “I see people do that in their houses and things but for a restaurant, I don’t know.”
Unfortunately for the woman, the incident was caught on camera and the video has gone viral online.
It appears in the video like one woman is leaning over a pot filled with hot water to soak one of her dreadlocks. The other woman is maneuvering the pot into a better position for the woman, and afterwards helps the first woman dry her hair with a towel.
The video was posted to Facebook and people could not believe what they were watching, especially this customer who has visited that chain numerous times.
“The sad thing is that it’s no telling how long this has gone on,” Nita Mae said in a comment on Facebook. “I think back to several incidents where myself or guests with me have found hair in our plates. We assumed hair had fallen off someone’s clothings or something like that. This type of behavior could have been going on who knows how long. For all we know, we’ve been eating dandruff spinkled grits and Bert’s unbeweavable Chili all along.”
If you need more proof than the footage, one customer even found hair in their food.
“(The customer) was just coughing. Cough. Cough. Making noises like that,” Robinson said. “He went to pulling out strings of hair out his mouth.”
Waffle House officials found out about the incident through a private Facebook message, according to a statement provided to WREG by a Waffle House spokesperson.
After upper management saw the video, the two female employees were fired, the restaurant manager told WREG.
“We immediately reached out to the local management team,” the statement read. “After identifying the parties involved, they were immediately terminated. The health department has been out to the restaurant for an inspection which it passed, and they have closed the case. We do not tolerate these behaviors and strive to provide a clean, safe environment for all our customers.”
“I was embarrassed,” the manager said. “But it’s all taken care of now. That’s all I can say.”
Although the inspection was passed, investigators did make a note in the case that the floor under the kitchen cooking equipment needed to be cleaned.
Watch the video here.
