Video Depicts Burger King Employee, Timothy Tackett, Bathing In Restaurant Sink
Several employees at a Xenia, Ohio Burger King are looking for new jobs after health officials viewed a video of an employee bathing in one of the restaurant’s stainless steel sinks.
According to Fox News, there were other employees and even a store manager present during the filming of this video. The film made its way onto the Internet via MySpace, where the bathing employee posted it on his MySpace page. You can glimpse photos of the incident here.
Timothy Tackett, aka “Mr. Unstable” on MySpace, was apparently celebrating his birthday. Although he appears to be naked in the video, 25-year-old Tackett said he was wearing a pair of Speedos. According to WDTN 2News, this stunt was ploy to lure people to Tackett’s MySpace page to hear his music, as he aspires to become a singer. Tackett was fired, and the other employees involved in the incident were fired and one quit.
Health Regulations at Speedy Food Restaurants
Not only does this story about a bathing employee raise the fast food gross-out factor, it also violates so many health codes.
My parents owned a mom and pop style fast food restaurant when I was growing up, and the health inspectors are very strict. My sister and I managed it for a summer, and we were scored on things like having a separate hand-washing sink for employees, wearing hairnets and plastic gloves, and maintaining a clean and sterilized work area.
Timothy Tackett violated those regulations and many more when he decided to catch a soapy bath in a sink used to clean colossal equipment for Burger King. A health inspector was dispatched to the Ohio Burger King, but employees had already sterilized the sink in question.
Other Health Code Violations at Fast Food Restaurants
At another restaurant I worked, the head cook smoked cigarettes while cooking customers’ meals. As I watched her one day, a huge ash from her cigarette dropped onto the grill she was using to cook hamburgers. She left it there.
At this same restaurant, the owner was mashing a large pot of potatoes for the Sunday buffet. I watched, apprehensive, as a plunge of sweat rolled off his bald head and dropped apt into the mashed potatoes. Needless to say, I quit and never ate at this restaurant again.
My cousin, who worked at a popular west coast quickly food Mexican restaurant, warned me against eating there. The employee whose space my cousin filled was fired for having a bowel movement in a large vat of refried beans.
Is Burger King a Safe Location to Eat?
Timothy Tackett claims to have spent an hour cleaning the sink after he took his bath. Tackett said in an interview with WDTN 2news that Burger King is a completely superior place to eat. He went on to say that he would continue to eat there if he was allowed.
Sources:
WDTN Dayton Ohio Weather and News, “Burger King bather video makes gigantic splash”
FOXNews.com, “Burger King Workers Fired Over Video of Teen Bathing in Sink”
Several years personal experience in food service industry
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Filed under News Claims by on Jan 18th, 2012. 