Photos and Update: KFC Employees Fired After Provocative Photos

True but those pics. are so darn funny! LOL....

That's not that bad ,view the movie Waiting,and see what realy goes on in the Kitchen.

That's not that bad ,view the movie Waiting,and see what realy goes on in the Kitchen.

And of course, the movie Road Trip and the scene with the French toast.

I've heard some horror stories from my friend who used to work at Hardee's.  Some of the stuff they do can be pretty vile.  One thing to remember:  Don't talk down to or agitate an employee, especially the drive thru guy.  Their job is hard enough, they don't need to be pissed off on top of that.  After all, this is 'the hand that feeds you'.

For a really good look at what goes on behind the scenes in some of the fanciest restaurants you should read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.  Everything from reusing leftover bread to intentionally serving old ingredients gets done. Hint: The Sunday Brunch is cheap for a reason; they need to clear the old stuff out of the cooler, and some of it has been sitting around for quite a while.  Remember too that Poppy doesn't wash his hands.

kentucky fried chicks ?

LOL and good one D DeMilo....

Always thought their chicken tasted funny, now I know why!  :-)

I too worked in the restaurant biz, in the kitchen and in the dining room.  I would agree with you, I've experienced relatively very few restaurant employees whom I would consider 'unprofessional'.  And I think most people would feel that way too, and that these sensational stories often get blown out of proportion or overexposed.

However, I would go one step further to say that I don't think restaurant cooks and fast food employees would necessarily belong in the same category.  Restaurant cooks, by and large, know more about actually cooking food, they have an incentive to be creative, and tend to love their job a lot more.  Fast food employees are more like assembly line workers... it's just another job to pay the bills, the ingredients are mostly pre-made already and they just have to slap everything together, there's more of a time crunch for them, they cannot stray from the menu or ingredients at all, and their customers are harder to please.  And I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they love their job at the fast food joint, whereas I've heard several people say they do love their job at the restaurant.

My wife used to work in the kitchen for some rather large full service restaurants and some small haute cuisine operations -- she's a pro and I agree, most in finer restaurants are.

Fast food on the other hand, is probably not hiring future Michelin chefs.

We actually had a McDonald's go out of business in my old neighborhood.  How many times have you ever seen a McDonald's go out of business?  This place smelled like a toilet, the food was horrible, they screwed up orders all the time, the employees in the kitchen were fat and lazy and just stood around and bull$#*^ted with each other all the time, AND they were stealing money and food out the back door.  And even with all those problems, they still managed to stay afloat for 5 years!

Let's just put it this way... the employees there had to try really hard.  That's how much effort it takes to run a McD's into the ground.

Can you provide a link?  I'd like to read that story.

gary if you meant me, there is no link.  This story was based on personal experience, and the words of people in my neighborhood who knew more about the place than I.  Happened about 6 years ago.

Spikgary has a personal problem with me so leave it at that waynef415. I fixed it so I don't even read anything he has to say which would be of no value anyway.

You would think that modern businessmen would have learned from the experiences of their predecessors, particularly Ma Bell aka the phone company.

In the early days of telephone lore the operators were mainly teenage boys. They were given to pulling pranks and heaven help an irate customer as their calls were routed to oblivion more often then not. It was so bad that Ma Bell eventually instituted a policy of hiring women only for operators. And that fixed the teenage pranksters at Ma Bell's sites.

Hate to say it but for all the social advances since the early days of telephony, teenagers still are a rowdy bunch even after another 100 plus years.

Rixar13,

I don't have a problem with you-I had never seen or heard that story before and I would like to read it.  Honestly.  No agenda and I have no problem with you that I know of.

Seems I must have gotten Rixar's panties in a wad at some point in the past.  I re-read his comment above and then checked his Column page, says he's a 52 year old Vietnam Vet.  Means he was born in 1956 or so, which would have made him 17 in 1973, 18 in 1974.  Somehow I doubt he's a real Vietnam Veteran.  As a real veteran (retired from the Air Force) I find that kind of offensive.

I'd still like to see a story on Rats being grilled at McDonalds-you think that would be up there in the whole urban legend level of stories.

Gary - I remember that story and you're probably right. I'm 54 and was in the last lottery call at 18. If he enlisted he might have seen Nam but not during the war

HA!! :-)  That really is disgusting.  (Those young ladies weren't exactly the skinniest stalks in the beanfield either, I'm sure the 'bath brine' was none too pleasant)

Wayne,

HA!! :-)  That really is disgusting. 

You think?

And now we know why Colonel Sanders had that big GRIN!

ROFL  :-)

Please tell me you would only hit that if you were drugged and desperate.

I would... if I were drugged, desperate, and had a light switch and some paper bags with smiley faces written on them.

and a robot...

(futurama reference)

The story (situation) is dumb. To finish the quote was the best use of my time here.

Have fun

John

HA!  "Ma'am I'm sorry to bother you, but I found a hair in my chicken."

Who knows?  The third might have been the daughter of the owner or something.

It was Wendy!

O wait....wrong chain

you have to wonder if the manager was taking the pictures.  3 in the tub someone was clicking.

According to the article, the third resigned...

Ohh so true

I haven't eaten FF in many many, years but the thought that came to mind was the 'Smell' from all the chicken whatever in that sink had to of gone on there skin and YUK the grease and ewwwwwww the smell and aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh No wonder WHY I don't eat this CR*p they try to pull off as FOOD?

STOP EATING FAST FOOD YOUR BODY WILL LOVE YOU FOR IT!!!!

No wonder WHY I don't eat this CR*p they try to pull off as FOOD?

It's only food in the sense that you can chew it up and swallow it.

I can't even swallow it.

Well then I guess it goes down to the level of chewing tobacco.

You can take comfort in the fact that they actually took a bath.  Probably did them some good.

At least they kept their cloths on...

One would think that those boys could have at least kept their spurs from jingling until after the restaurant closed and the customers left.  I know what the hormones are like for teenagers, I remember.  But I mean, come on... I hope it was at least a cute chicken and not some random fat one that they met at the 7-11.