The two women involved in a McDonald’s brawl that went viral after the employee body slammed a customer who flung a milkshake in her face, hit her in the face with a metal tray and insulted her mother, have been identified.
Erika Chavolla, 24, was working at a Las Vegas McDonalds when she got into a dispute with the 24-year-old customer after she allegedly tried to fill up a water cup with free soda.
Sabrinah Fontelar, of Las Vegas, has since bragged on Instagram that she was the customer in the video and has posted photos from the shocking video and links to the DailyMail.com’s original story.
Erika Chavolla (right) was working at a Las Vegas McDonalds when she got into a dispute with Sabrinah Fontelar (left) after she allegedly tried to fill up a water cup with free soda.
The two women got into a heated fight in McDonald after the employee body slammed Fontelar
She has claimed on social media she was charged with battery over the incident.
Chavolla said on Thursday that she has kept her job at McDonald’s following the incident.
She also showed off a scratch on her hand, from where she ‘hit her in the teeth.’
‘It’s crazy, people think just ’cause you’re working…’ she said in a video posted on Thursday. ‘She was trying to smack for a long time.
‘I wasn’t even going to hit her. When there’s a big girl coming towards her, she started freaking out.
‘Dont talk about my momma!’ she added, laughing.
Sabrinah Fontelar, of Las Vegas, has since bragged on Instagram that she was the customer in the video and has posted photos from the shocking video and links to the DailyMail.com’s original story
The customer, who self identified as Fontelar, can also be heard saying ‘that’s why your a** is behind the f***ing counter’ before throwing a French fry across the restaurant
Chavolla (left and right) said on Thursday that she has kept her job at McDonald’s following the incident
Chavolla said she was stunned that the video had become such a viral hit.
‘That s**t was crazy, it went everywhere,’ she said, adding that she had also seen some of the negative comments about her size. ‘I seen all the mean stuff they posting.’
McDonalds say it is investigating the incident and that they ‘do not condone the behavior depicted in this video.’
Witness Marie Dayag, who posted the viral video and follow up with Chavolla, said the row between the two women started when the customer tried to put soda in a free water cup.
Dayag wrote: ‘The lady asked for a water cup and supervisor shut down the soda machine because she wasn’t letting her get a free soda.’
Dayag’s video shows the two women arguing before the fight breaks out.
While the audio is difficult to hear, the row appears to be over money. Chavolla can be heard saying ‘since you can’t afford one’.
The customer, who self identified as Fontelar, can also be heard saying ‘that’s why your a** is behind the f***ing counter’ before throwing a French fry across the restaurant.
She can also be heard repeatedly shouting ‘fight me’ across the restaurant.
A second piece of footage shows the fight breaking out after Fontelar hurls a milkshake at the employee.
As Chavolla storms toward her, she picks up a metal tray and hits the employee in the head with it, but she barely notices.
Instead, the worker grabs the customer by the hair and begins raining punches down on her head and face.
A McDonald’s worker was filmed brutally beating a customer somewhere in the US after the female patron threw a milkshake at her (left) and hit her with a tray (right)
The woman can be heard arguing with the staff about money shortly before the fight broke out, at one point tossing a French fry at the counter (right)
Chavolla then picks her up and throws her over a nearby table as other employees and even a customer runs over to try and break it up.
The pair are eventually separated as another McDonald’s worker tries to move the customer away, but Fontelar then begins fighting her instead.
That restarts the brawl, with the customer beaten in the head and face a second time before Chavolla throws her over another table.
At one point Chavolla can be heard shouting ‘my momma aint dead, you respect my momma!’
The customer also picks up a chair and makes as if she is about to hit the employee, but is quickly disarmed having apparently given up all hope of winning.
A few more angry words are exchanged but no more punches are thrown before the footage cut out.
The employee rains blows down on the woman’s face and head before body-slamming her into a table as other staff members and a customer try to intervene
At one point during the brawl the worker can be heard yelling ‘my momma aint dead, you respect my momma’ – though it was not clear what this was in reference to