This doesn’t count as washing your hands before returning to work.
An employee at a Wendy’s in Florida brought his home hygiene routine to the fast food restaurant, washing up in an industrial sink, a revolting viral video shows.
The 93-second footage, posted Tuesday on Facebook, shows a Snapchat video of a shirtless young man without shoes or socks climbing into an oversize sink in the Milton restaurant’s kitchen.
“I don’t suggest anyone eating at the Milton wendy’s again,” a caption accompanying the video read, complete with several vomiting emojis.
Several people can be heard encouraging the unidentified employee to hop into the bubbly water on the video, which had been viewed more than 706,000 times as of Friday.
“Take a bath,” one female co-worker said. “Get in there.”
The employee, who appeared to be in his late teens, then said he approved of the unsanitary soak and that the warm water was just right.
“Turn the jets on,” he joked before washing his armpits and asking several other employees standing nearby for a towel.
But reps for the restaurant didn’t find the humor in the employee’s unauthorized dip, saying in a statement to the Pensacola News Journal that he no longer works there.
“We are taking this incident seriously and it is obviously totally unacceptable,” said Mike Johnson, marketing director for Carlisle Corporation, which owns and operates the restaurant outside Pensacola. “This was a prank by a person who no longer works at this restaurant, and who clearly did not use good judgment. We are taking this opportunity to reinforce our very strict quality procedures with our restaurant team.”
State inspectors learned about the nauseating video late Tuesday and visited the restaurant a day later, the Northwest Florida Daily News reports.
A manager received instruction from the regulators from the state’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation on sanitation, safety requirements and managerial control. The restaurant, which remained open Wednesday, passed the inspection, according to an investigation report obtained by the newspaper.
Haley Leach, of Milton, who posted the video on Facebook, said she knew one of the employees from high school.
“The actions in the video were appalling and I felt like the public had a right to know,” Leach told the newspaper.
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