I didn't hear about this, but now I'm mad at them. What did they do?
Genuine question: what did they do?
a reporter team went undercover to burger king twice, back in 2014 and last year in 2022. the reporter team went there because employees reported the following conditions.
in 2014 they caught several burger king branches with extrem hygienic problems, food was relabeled (durability was exceeded) and sold, bad working safety for workers and bad payment. when it was made public, 89 branches had to close and burger king promised to better themselves.
now in 2022 they went again, because (again) employees reported extremely bad conditions.
in the braches they went undercover, they:
- sold spoiled ingredients (such as meat, sauces, buns and others),
- mice began to eat the buns (those were sold too),
- extrem hygienic problems such as mice shit in the kitchen (they even ran into the dining area), maggots that 'walked' into the branch from the back door (because of the waste), employees putting out the storage hall (so the ingredients werent cooling for some time) and many more
- food was relabeled (durability was exceeded) and sold
- workers were not sent to courses to learn stuff
- extremely bad working conditions. they hired foreigners that dont understand the language and exploited them (sometimes they had to work 12 hours or longer)
- sold burgers as vegan, but put none vegan ingredients on them
- and more stuff
the branches they went in were closed after it was made public, I think only 1 of them is still closed.
for me, I dont trust them anymore (or fast food diners in general) after all that stuff. the biggest problem for ppl was actually the fact that they sold burgers labled as vegan and put none vegan stuff on it.