Posted on 07/09/2013 12:05:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Employee Brandon Huber's viral video shows piles of raw meat sitting in the summer sun. And he says it is about to be served to buffet customers once the state inspection is over.
The food is fit for flies.
But instead, the rancid meat was being served to customers, a Golden Corral restaurant employee says in a shocking video.
‘I cook this food every day, and now I see what is involved into it,’ 21-year-old Brandon Huber says.
‘I cook this food every day, and now I see what is involved into it,’ 21-year-old Brandon Huber says. Brandon Huber's viral video of raw meat sitting in the summer sun by a parking lot dumpster has nearly 2 million views on YouTube — it also has customers, and the franchise's owner, disgusted.
Eric Holm, the owner of the Port Orange restaurant, said the manager on duty has since been fired.
The video has the state's Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigating.
The video has the state's Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigating.
"A video was recently posted showing an incident of improper food handling at our Port Orange, Fla., location," Holm, owner of 27 other Golden Corrals around Orlando and Atlanta, wrote in a statement Monday. "None of these items were served to a single customer. All were destroyed within the hour at the direction of management. Brandon Huber, the employee who made the video, participated in the disposal of the food."
Posted July 1, the video shows Huber, 21, a self-proclaimed long-time employee in full work attire, describing an inspection under way at the food joint. As he walks toward a dumpster, he explains how the manager put the piles of raw meat, including pot roast, bacon, baby back ribs and burger patties, outside and unrefrigerated to avoid inspection.
A self-proclaimed long-time employee says he found the piles of raw meat, including pot roast, bacon baby back ribs and burger patties, outside and unrefrigerated to avoid inspection.
A self-proclaimed long-time employee says he found the piles of raw meat, including pot roast, bacon baby back ribs and burger patties, outside and unrefrigerated to avoid inspection.
The food is piled in trays, sitting on metal serving shelves.
Dumpster or way station? A video by a Golden Corral employee seems to show meat left to rot outside before being served to customers again. BRANDON HUBER VIA YOUTUBE
Dumpster or way station? A video by a Golden Corral employee seems to show meat left to rot outside before being served to customers again. "Apparently, what my company likes to do to get ready for inspections, is put their food by the dumpsters," says Huber as he records the 2-minute long video behind the Golden Corral. "Look at all these flies, it's disgusting."
The disturbing claim that the restaurant served such food to customers has the state's Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigating the matter, a spokeswoman told The Dayton Beach News-Journal.
"They are looking into it," Tajiana Ancora-Brown said of the department's division of Hotels and Restaurants. "It [the investigation] is in progress."
The video first came to police attention after Holm, the owner, claimed he was being blackmailed. Huber's father, William Huber, posted the video on eBay with a $5,000 asking price. Holm took that as an extortion attempt but police disagreed. Instead, detectives passed it on to state restaurant inspectors. The agency's website showed Tuesday the restaurant remains open and that it last passed inspection Jan. 7. There is no mention of a more recent inspection mentioned in the video. The location opened in October.
"I cook this food every day, and now I see what is involved into it," Huber says in a second video, published online July 7. "And to me as an employee here, I would not eat this stuff."
Summer before last, on a road trip, we ended up camping at the Hampton Inn in St. George, Utah....and there was a Golden Corral right next door; we'd seen their TV commercials before, so gave it a go.
Well, by midnight I was sh*tting and puking for the rest of the night....as we continued our trip, I continued sick through Idaho Falls overnight, Cody, Wyoming overnight, and finally could eat again and get some sleep in Wall, South Dakota.
I'll never pass up a chance to bash Golden Corral.
The food at the Goldern Corral in my little burg was so gawd-awful that it actually closed down. And that’s saying a lot because those kind of all-you-can-eat food-trough places are a really big hit here.
“feed-back restaurants ... are run by Mexicans and White Trash.”
That’s pretty much true for ALL restaurants, big or small, super-high-end or super-low-end, fast food or sit-down. That’s a very well known fact of life. And personally, I FAR prefer restaurants worked by Mexicans than White Trash. (That is the very, very few times I actually eat out.)
I’m going to get the papers, get the papers.
I ate at that very same one in Saint George. I enjoyed it as usual. No problems afterwards so who knows what happened.
I don't have experience with restaurant inspectors but I dealt with USDA FSIS inspectors daily for 6 years. The trash area was always an area that got a lot of attention. We were required to have an enclosed dumpster (like you see in the video) to keep rats and other vermin away.
Either way, NO MAS! Heh.
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