Posted on 01/15/2017 1:35:24 PM PST by Gamecock
The Mississippi State Department of Health, the Columbus, Mississippi police department and Jack’s Family Restaurant, Inc. have all been investigating an alleged food contamination incident with particularly disturbing details.
According to a Facebook post that quickly went viral, the mother of a former Jack’s employee in Columbus alleged that another fast food worker put menstrual blood on a hamburger and licked the cheese that went on it before serving the meal to a customer last Saturday.
Per The Commercial Dispatch, Tabatha Hollins of New Hope said her 16-year-old daughter used to work at one of the restaurant’s 130 or so locations across the South. When she saw the other employee put her bodily fluids on the burger, she spoke to one of the managers on duty, who served the food anyway, Hollins claims.
After calling the company’s corporate offices, Hollins’s daughter was fired for making “false reports,” according to Hollins’s Facebook post. In a statement to WJTV, Jack’s Family Restaurant said the employee who allegedly contaminated the food was “terminated several days ago for unrelated reasons and no longer works for us. At the time of her dismissal Jack’s was not aware of these allegations.”
Hollins included an audio recording in her Facebook post that she claims contains a conversation between her daughter and the employee in which the employee seems to admit to deliberately contaminating the food, per The Dispatch.
That Facebook post quickly drew shock and outrage on social media, and led to both the state department of health and the fast food chain to announce investigations.
“Wednesday morning, we became aware of some Facebook chatter about an alleged incident," department of health Director of Communications Liz Sharlot told The Dispatch. “It was enough of a concern for us that we sent out an investigator to the restaurant to begin investigating what we considered an alleged incident of intentional contamination.”
According to WJTV, the restaurant passed the inspection and referred the matter to the city of Columbus. On Friday, the city’s police department announced that it was launching a criminal investigation after consulting with the mayor.
“There has been a lot of information on this case out in social media already,” police chief Oscar Lewis told WCBI. “We have had to sift through to determine what was fact and what was not. At this point, we know enough to open an official case and that is what we are doing today.”
Lewis also said in a statement that the police have been in contact with the person who allegedly received the tainted hamburger. However, the department did not offer any possible explanations for why the employee may have done it.
Jack’s, which is concentrated in the southeast, announced it was also launching its own inquiry into the situation.
“At Jack’s, we take these allegations very seriously and are working to determine the validity of these claims. Additionally, we are committed to taking further action if appropriate,” the company’s statement read.
The Commercial Dispatch reports that Jack's last received an A rating from the Mississippi Department of Health for a 2015 health inspection.
If true, she should be locked up forever.
People like this should never be allowed out in public.
why do I doubt the teenager?
In 1962 I knew an employee of Jack and the Box, when a customer asked for extra secret sauce, he would clear his throat and spit the saliva phlegm onto the burger patty.... He joked about it with the other employees. I’m sure every major chain has had their weasels and weirdos that did their secret silly things.
Glad to say I’ve never heard of Jack’s.
I hate to cook and love to eat out.
This may have just saved our bank account and my waistline. I many never eat out again.
Was his name Jesse Jackson?
Can’t somebody staunch the flow of this idiocy?
The customer must have been a yelper.
“...she spoke to one of the managers on duty, who served the food anyway, Hollins claims.”
Obviously, the manager was trying to pad his paycheck.
There appears to be some meat to this story.
I’m glad the young lady chose to go pubic with this information. If she’d chosen to cover it up, no telling how many other customers would’ve cycled through this restaurant.
I’ll never eat at Jack’s again...
Just don’t eat at restaurants in areas with a large ‘aggrieved’ population.
I’m calling BS. first of all, it’s nearly impossible to get menstrual fluid on food without the entire world seeing you do it.
it’s exactly the sort of outlandish creep story you would expect out of a teenager.
I don’t think I could trust her.
There is a lady named Tabitha that has worked with me in the past on a few gigs that I trust way more. A lot thinner and better looking too.
Do you mean Jack in the Box? This is sick.. I worked in a fast food restaurant in the 1960’s I have never heard of such disgusting behavior..
it was a sarcastic comment. I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw her, which obviously isn’t very far.
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