Workers at a Wendy’s in Oklahoma got a shock after seeing a mouse crawling around on the food they were about to serve.
Employees at the fast food chain in Tulsa were so concerned about the cleanliness of the restaurant they decided to video the rodent in order to prove it to their bosses.
The clip shows a live mouse among the hamburger buns complete with feces running throughout the packaging.
Wendy’s is investigating after an employee video showed live mice crawling around in hamburger bun bag in Oklahoma
A video shows a mouse among hamburger buns and feces in the packaging
Skylar Frame ended up sharing the film after management seemed to avoid taking action on Thursday.
‘I just hear “Mouse, mouse, mouse!” I’m like, “we do not have mice in this store, what?” I go back there and the mouse is moving around in the big buns,’ she said.
The Wendy’s team said in a statement to WAVE that they were made aware of the situation and take the matter very seriously.
An investigation has since been launched with local the pest control office.
However, staff at the restaurant say this latest episode doesn’t surprise them with levels of hygiene being at an all-time low.
Employee Skylar Frama shared the viral video when she says she told management and they did nothing in response
Mouse droppings can be seen clearly in the plastic packaging
The employee informed management at the fast food restaurant about the problem but claims
Another employee, Samantha Niebelink, said that she noticed a cigarette lying on the counter and a rat had also been found just weeks earlier
Even before the incident was reported last week, loose cigarettes were often left in the preparation area.
‘The managers they’re just like “Yeah we’ll get to it, yeah it’s not really that big of an issue.”‘ Frame said.
Earlier in June, a rat was also found roaming around the kitchens and then the mouse was found making the most of the burger buns.
‘The next time I found an actual live mouse in there, crawling around, eating all the burger buns,’ Samantha Niebelink said. ‘The manager told me ‘Just take a new rack and get the buns underneath.’ That was just disgusting because last time there was rat feces it was dribbling underneath every other rack.’
Employees are now threatening to quit on the job if managers don’t start taking the health code violations seriously.
Weeks earlier another worker took a photo of a food prep area with a cigarette on the counter
‘There was this one guy he was sick, he was a sandwich maker, and he was not wearing gloves,’ Niebelink said. ‘He was rubbing his nose, he was making them, and he didn’t care if the buns were toasted or not, he was just throwing them out. I thought I was going to throw up.’
Wendy’s head office have released a statement saying: ‘nothing is more important than the safety of our employees and customers. We have stringent procedures in place to ensure a safe and well-maintained restaurant.’
Despite the employees video and verbal allegations, Wendy’s corporate said there were no reported violations in the last inspection report for that particular location.
Even when the local health department visited on Friday, no violations were found during the inspection.