A customer at a Chick-fil-A located at Mercer University food-court, noticed that there were bugs crawling on her food. The unfortunate situation prompted the chain to throw out a recent delivery they had received of bug-tainted produce.
No, it wasn’t a seasoning native only to Chick-fil-A – the barely visible specks were bopping about on the customers meal as if her food was their own personal playground.
A thirteen second video made the rounds on the social media platform, YikYak.
For how short the video is, it does a bang-up job of telling the viewer a sordid tale.
Somewhere along the way…bugs had infested Chick-fil-A.
Additionally, whoever prepared the food didn’t notice them. Somehow they had breached several points of contact before being discovered; whoever prepared the produce to be picked up for delivery, the shipper, the workers that prepared the food, and any other worker that was present and near the food in any capacity..
When the customer ordered her food from Chick-fil-A, and sat down to eat it in the food court – she noticed that her food was moving. Upon closer inspection, she could see tiny little off-white bugs stomping around.
The worst part…they weren’t identifiable.
After she alerted the staff to the insect invasion – the staff inspected the food in the kitchen. It was all bugged up.
Earlier, the University Center Chick-fil-A had received a produce delivery, and they determined that this was the source for the hitchhiking mystery bugs.
The staff had to throw out the majority of the food as it posed a health hazard.
“The Mercer Chick-fil-A in the University Center food court received a delivery of fresh produce from Chick-fil-A’s distributor that had an insect infestation,” Mercer Senior Director of Media Relations Kyle Sears said in a statement to The Cluster. “This produce has been pulled from circulation, and Mercer is working with Chick-fil-A and its distributor to replace the produce.”
For the disconcerting cherry on the cake – shortly after the incident, the Chick-fil-A was still up and running for business. Nothing to see here folks, just business as usual.
