New York mother horrified to find her 4-year-old daughter’s Burger King meal splattered with blood, fast food chain ‘deeply shocked and concerned’
A New York mother was horrified to discover that the Burger King kids’ meal she ordered for her daughter was splattered with blood.
Tiffany Floyd took her 4-year-old to a fast food drive-thru in Getzville, New York, around noon Friday and was shocked when she saw their meal covered in red liquid.
“All I heard was, ‘Mom, I don’t want any ketchup,’ so I grabbed her bag, thinking they messed up our order again, and I looked and there was blood all over her burger, all over the wrapper. I looked inside the bag, there was blood on her toys, everywhere,” Floyd, who lives in Sanborn, about 30 minutes north of Buffalo, told The Post.
“So I immediately asked her to spit out her food. She had eaten some fries and a piece of her burger. Then I looked at my food and saw that there was blood on mine too.”
Floyd immediately called the establishment and claims the manager, Dan, “informed me that a cook had cut his hand and was bleeding,” she said.
“And that he was really sorry, and that if I came back, he would pay me back.”
She also called her daughter’s pediatrician, who told her she would have to wait 30 days to have her little girl’s blood tested to see if she had contracted any illnesses.
“And then have him do blood tests every now and then for a year to see if anything shows up,” she added.
The manager would not tell him who the injured employee was.
“If they just forced her to go get tested, my daughter wouldn’t need to get the jab,” she said.
Floyd also contacted his local health inspector at the Niagara County Health Department to file a report, and “he spoke to the same official, who said, ‘I had someone cut their finger, but he didn’t think it was bleeding that much,’” she recalled.
The Niagara County Health Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Floyd took to TikTok yesterday to post about the incident, which has received 1.8 million views.
On Friday, Floyd contacted Burger King’s corporate office through its website and received a response Saturday afternoon from a company representative who said they would pay for his daughter’s medical expenses.
“We told Burger King that the medical expenses were not enough,” Floyd said.
“And my daughter hasn’t eaten since and my anxiety is through the roof. What if my daughter needs professional help with this?”
The company said it was “deeply shocked and concerned to learn of this incident.”
“We were deeply shocked and concerned by this incident. We have been in contact with the customer and are working with her to resolve this incident. This incident was caused by a restaurant team member who injured their finger and upon realizing it, immediately removed themselves. We have closed the restaurant to retrain all team members and have hired an outside contractor to conduct a deep clean,” the company said in a statement. “We expect the restaurant to reopen on Monday and are fully paying team members for any shifts lost during this temporary closure.”
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