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    McDonald’s Employee Caught Drying Mop Over French Fries

    A viral video has caught one McDonald's employee that decided to dry the store's mop under their fries warmer.
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    It’s always a disappointment when a restaurant isn’t held up to the proper standards. Unfortunately, one McDonald’s restaurant in Australia has viewers of a new viral video completely upset. It seems as though one of the McDonald’s employees decided to use the restaurant’s fries warmer to dry the store’s mop.

    As noted by NY Post, a customer named Debbie Barakat went to the McDonald’s location in Booval, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, on April 4 when she saw the incident. The employee can be seen holding the mop right next to the machine’s heat lamp and fries.

    She shared the following statement to Yahoo! News Australia about the McDonald’s mop:

    “I was just standing waiting for my order when I looked over and heard a staff member say; ‘I don’t think you should be doing that as it could be a safety issue as it can catch on fire,’” Barakat shared.

    According to Barakat, employees at the restaurant worked around the mop-dryer and continued to grab fries. She continued:

    “I was totally shocked at what I witnessed and she just laughed it off.”

    The mop being dried had just been used to clean the floor. While Bakarat contacted the store’s manager via email to complain about the incident, she only received the following response:

    “Be assured that we’re taking corrective action so a similar action will not reoccur.”

    Additionally, it’s being called an isolated incident, with a McDonald’s Australia spokesperson having shared this statement:

    “McDonald’s takes food safety extremely seriously and follows strict cleaning, sanitization and hygiene procedures in all restaurants,” the company said.

    They continued to explain their reaction to the incident:

    “We have addressed this with the restaurant directly and conducted thorough re-training for all employees on McDonald’s sanitization, hygiene and food safety procedures.”

    Here are some of the social media responses shared via X to the incident:

    It’s certainly an upsetting sight. As of this writing, it looks like the employee that dried the mop using the fries warmer was not fired. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any potential updates as we have them.