Viral Video Shows Raising Cane’s Employee Mixing Tea With Her Bare Hand

This is naaaaaaaaasty.

A video has gone viral, showing a Raising Cane’s employee mixing tea with her bare hand. It’s been viewed over 1.6 million times.

In the video, a female employee is seen stirring tea with her forearm in a pitcher and then pouring the drink into the tea dispenser.

Written over the short clips are, “Don’t drink tea from Cane’s” and “She tryflin [sic] cause [sic] we don’t care no more.”

Another employee who is filming can be heard laughing off screen.

The video resulted in swift action from the fried chicken chain. The president and COO of the company, AJ Kumaran, told FOX4’s Zac Summers that as soon as he learned of the video Tuesday night, the restaurant opened an investigation and then terminated the employees responsible.

The chain released the following statement:

“At Raising Cane’s, we take pride in what we do and work very hard to train our 19,000+ Crewmembers to uphold the highest standards, which our customers have come to expect from us. After reviewing the video of the isolated incident at the Tiffany Springs Restaurant, we are incredibly disappointed by the actions of these Crewmembers. We take the safety and quality of our food very seriously, and we will not tolerate any actions that compromise these standards. As soon as we were made aware of the incident, we took immediate action, including launching an investigation, terminating the Crewmembers and contacting local authorities to support their review of the incident. This is not who we are as a company, and we hold ourselves to a higher expectation. Moving forward, we will work to ensure additional training for all Crewmembers to reinforce how we expect our team to embody Cane’s values in everything we do.”

I’m really glad the chain addressed this so quickly, because that’s gross and totally uncalled for. It’s not funny. It’s rude and the *ultimate* way to spread germs. Paying customers deserve better than that.

h/t Fox News