Rats, mice and cockroaches, oh my - UK KFC needs to clean up
KFC may be dabbling with marketing food safety (see the lid from a bucket of chicken), but marketing has to be backed up with data. And having a lousy restaurant inspection report will turn anyone’s stomach, no matter how many checkmarks are on things.
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Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is being prosecuted after environmental health inspectors reported finding cockroaches, mice and flies at one of its busiest UK restaurants.
Officials from Westminster Council said that a cockroach scurried across a counter when they visited the fast food outlet in Leicester Square, central London.
They claimed a mouse was seen running across the floor and flies buzzed around their heads at the Coventry Street premises, Press Association reports.
In total, KFC faced 13 charges brought under food hygiene regulations following an inspection on August 15 last year. It has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
KFC condiment kerfuffle
A 26-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday night by police in Surprise, Arizona, after she allegedly tried to back over a KFC employee with her car because her meal was served sans condiments.
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Surprise police said the woman was at the drive-through of a KFC when the argument began because employees failed to provide condiments with her meal.
She entered the KFC and had a verbal exchange with an employee about 7 p.m. Employees ordered the woman to leave the building and a KFC employee followed her out of the building and stood behind her vehicle to get a license plate number.
That’s when she apparently decided to put the car in reverse. And then she did it again.
The woman was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct.
Sydney KFC sued for $10 million after 7-year-old develops Salmonella and brain damage in 2005
Monika Samaan was seven years old when she collapsed and was rushed to hospital with salmonella poisoning after eating a Twister from the Villawood KFC outlet in Sydney's south west in October 2005.
She has acquired spastic quadriplegia and a profound intellectual disability.
Today, Monika arrived at the New South Wales Supreme Court in a wheelchair (right) as her just over $10 million lawsuit against KFC got underway.
The family's lawyer, Anthony Bartley SC, told the court in his opening address that Monika had been an extremely bright and active young girl before her illness.
Bartley said there was little doubt Monika's illness was caused by salmonella on the chicken she ate, adding, "You will hear unsettling and disturbing practices in the kitchen, including the kitchen KFC operated at its Villawood store.”
To keep up with orders and deliver them with speed to customers, KFC's "young, enthusiastic" staff would frequently help each other out. But by manning different work stations, the staff could easily have transferred bacteria from raw chicken to the cooked product, he added.
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Sydney KFCs fined $73,000 for filth
Franchisee QSR Pty Ltd, the owner of two KFC restaurants in Sydney’s south, has been convicted of 11 charges of breaching food hygiene laws between May 2007 and February 2008 and has been fined $73,000.
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NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said the potential health issues were compounded by the fact the company ignored directives to lift its game.
Inspectors discovered the problems after a complaint from a member of the public.
Mr Macdonald said the case was a "textbook example" of how consumer complaints helped inspectors police food safety in NSW.
But KFC defended QSR Pty Ltd, saying the breaches were just a "temporary breakdown" in standards.
KFC -- Food Safety Assured (right).
Three California KFC employees take a dip in restaurant's sink
Don’t slaughter goats in the restaurant kitchen; don’t moon drive-through customers at the Dairy Queen, and don’t make your girls gone wild demo tape in the commercial dishwashing sink at the KFC where you work.
Three Anderson, California girls (right) decided to go for a dip in the sink at the local Kentucky Fried Chicken, and one of the girls thought only her close friends who would never tell would see the pics so she decided to share on MySpace.
The Redding Record Searchlight reports the photos had been filed under a gallery called “KFC moments.” Captions for the photos included “haha KFC showers!” and “haha we turned on the jets.” …
Although the pictures were available to the public earlier today, all of the photos on the girl’s site were restricted to private viewers tonight.
Kentucky Fried Chicken marketing food safety
I must have been in grade 11.
The object – no, not an object, the girl -- of my affection worked part-time at the local Kentucky Fried Chicken in Brantford, Ontario (that’s in Canada).
We’d meet after work, and ever since, the Colonel’s secret spices have held a special place.
In university and afterwards, I always seemed to live within smelling distance of the Kentucky version of deep-fried chicken thingies. And then there was the moving ritual: who hasn’t changed residences without a bucket of the Colonel and a case of beer to pay off the movers? (I’m thanking you, Marty)
It’s been a long time, but driving back from Des Moines Sunday morning with Amy, I was suddenly struck with the KFC urge. It was gross, although the corn-on-the-cob was as good as I remember when Chapman and I got a similar meal in upstate New York before crossing the border into Canada -- no corn-on-the-cob in Canadian KFC, at least not in 2003 – returning from a golf trip I was particularly grateful for.
And now KFC is marketing food safety.
Maybe they have been for a long time. I apparently only visit during nostalgia trips. But there it is, right there on the Colonel’s bucket: rigorously inspected; thoroughly cooked; quality assured.
Now, can I get that same assurance on the cole slaw – the cabbage-containg cole slaw that led to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in 1998 and again in 1999 at KFCs in Indiana and Ohio?
You can't have three breasts at KFC - it's two breasts and a leg ... or else
A KFC manager hurled cooking oil, gravy and a metal chip drainer at a customer who complained after a server insisted he could only have two breasts and a leg in his meal, screaming,
"You'll get what you're given” and calling the customer a "motherf***er."
The Mirror reports that stunned families watched on in disbelief.
Police were called and both men were arrested at the restaurant and given £80 fixed penalty fines.
The customer said,
"That was the most expensive fast food meal I ever had. I got a battering from the Colonel. I just can't believe how rude the KFC staff were. The manager was swearing at me and insulting my mum. When I swore back it became a free for all. I was no angel in all this and responded when sworn at. But I'm now pursuing KFC for compensation for my ruined clothing."
The 26-year-old manager has been suspended while KFC bosses carry out an investigation into the incident at Ealing, West London.
Roll over Colonel Sanders
Siler said the fried chicken, first served by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940, deserves the title because of the worldwide attention and economic benefit it has brought to the state.
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Bruce Friedrich, vice president at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, responded, "If the state legislature moves forward with this one, then they should change Kentucky's state bird from the cardinal to the debeaked, crippled, scalded, diseased, dead chicken."
Two years ago, PETA launched an initiative to have a bust of the bespectacled Colonel Sanders removed from the Kentucky Capitol. Sanders, with his white goatee and black string tie, became recognizable worldwide by marketing his fried chicken.
