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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A video of an employee at a Missouri restaurant stirring tea with her forearm has gone viral, and those responsible have been fired.
The video, which has been viewed more than 700,000 times on Facebook, shows a female employee at Raising Cane’s making tea with her arm fully submerged. The employee and another girl are heard laughing before the employee poured the tea into a dispenser.
The caption on the video read, “don’t drink tea from Cane’s…she tryflin cause we don’t care no more.”
“To video yourself doing it says that it was very purposeful,” said Tatiana Camacho, whose daughters love to visit the restaurant chain. “It looks like they’re enjoying being gross.”
“It’s not sanitary and people could get really sick from that because they don’t know where her hands have been,” added Grant Martin, who used to work in the fast-food industry.
The restaurant chain was swift in condemning the actions. The president and COO of the company, AJ Kumaran, told WDAF he learned of the video late Tuesday night. The restaurant opened an investigation and quickly fired the employees responsible for the video.
Kumaran sent WDAF the following statement:
“I appreciate that he took action quickly and there weren’t any excuses because that was pretty inexcusable,” Camacho said about the company’s response.
The president of Raising Cane’s said they’re going to hold additional training moving forward to reinforce the restaurant’s expectations.