Three fast-food employees in South Carolina face criminal charges after allegedly retrieving a customer’s discarded meal from the trash, spitting on it, and serving it back to her after she complained about her original order.
Customer Warned by Restaurant Insider
Aaliyah Shuntai Sanders, 23, Trinity Lashell Rice, 19, and Shadela Crystal Holley were arrested and charged with tampering with a human drug product or food item following the May 31 incident at a Wendy’s location in Union, South Carolina. The charges came after a customer initially complained about her drive-thru order and requested a refund. Instead of processing the refund, staff members took back the food and offered to remake her meal.
The customer accepted the replacement order and drove away, unaware of what had transpired behind the counter. Shortly after leaving the restaurant, she received a phone call from someone at the Wendy’s who informed her that an employee had pulled her original food from the trash can and spat on it before serving it back to her. The caller’s identity and motive for alerting the customer remain unclear.
Manager Confirms Employee Misconduct
After receiving the warning call, the customer examined her meal and discovered the informant’s claim was accurate. The food she received was identical to her original order, not a fresh replacement as promised. She immediately contacted local police to file a report about the incident. The customer also called the restaurant directly to speak with management about the disturbing allegation.
The restaurant manager confirmed to the victim that he had questioned the staff members involved and verified the tampering had occurred. According to reports, the manager stated that all three employees implicated in the incident had been written up for their actions. The fast-food chain has not yet issued a public statement regarding the arrests or the steps taken to address food safety concerns at the location.
Growing Concerns About Food Service Standards
This incident highlights ongoing concerns about food handling practices and employee accountability in the fast-food industry. Food tampering charges carry serious legal consequences, as such actions pose potential health risks to consumers and violate public trust in restaurant safety standards. The case raises questions about training protocols and oversight at franchise locations, where individual employee actions can damage brand reputation and customer confidence across the entire chain.
Customers should stop going to these type of places!
Health hazard is a very serious issue!
these types of incidences happen in high end restaurant to.. not just ” these type of places”!
BILL: yes, I totally agree. It could happen in a drive thru place (any of them) or in an OLIVE GARDEN or an OUTBACK STEAK HOUSE or any place else. It irritates me and frustrates me also that people think if you bring something to their attention that is an automatic COMPLAINT!!! WHAT’s up with that?????
YOUR ORDER SHOULD BE CORRECT… IF you don’t want pickle then it should not have pickles on it, if you ask for and paid for Tomato and Onion, then it should be on the sandwich… I like mayo on the top or bottom of a bun and ketchup on the other but usually they just slap (way more than you needed) on either the top or the bottom and the other bun is just left DRY!!! Seems like in MOST fast-food places the people making the food are just NOT paying attention or they are tired and overworked. They are processing that food as fast as they can and MISTAKES are bound to happen… WHAT IS THE SOLUTION??????????
If a person has good parents, usually a mother and father, they would be less likely to do something like that.
They would have been terminated on the spot they got a write up like wtf.
PALTHRAXEN; I AGREE… Had I been a manager at that place, I would have called the police, it would have been reported and all THREE would then be FIRED… And the rest would know if they did that or anything like that, they would get the same, and it would be reported and they would also be fired with a bad recommendation … These young kids need to learn and perhaps only the hard way will matter… A slap on the hand (as we know) just doesn’t work …
Cant terminate them look at their names. The protected class.
Fired and Prosecuted “To The FULLEST EXTENT of the Law”
Want to bet What Color They are? Notice THAT Wasn’t Mentioned
More Trash Heap People , Prosecute FULLY !!!!!!!
Want to Bet on THE Ethnicity ??????? Hmmm ??
I had an instant mental picture of them. No doubt you’re correct in your thinking as well.
No bets needed. The names tell the story , and why should this surprise no one
If these individuals we’ll prosecuted they would use the race card as a defense!!!!!!
If I see Kneegerows behind the counter I do an about face forward march right out the door.
That would be your basic best defense. I would do the same.
I wonder why there no pics of the perps?
The Fatique HAS Become Exhaustion
The employee who contacted the customer obviously knew the customer if she called them over the phone. Richard? Customers should stop going to these types of places? Really? I had a job where I was working a lot of hours and it was nice for me to stop somewhere and have breakfast prepared for me before I began my day. I should expect good and safe service before I spent the day taking care of others thank you very much! Luckily, this person had someone call with a warning. Maybe the other girls knew the customer as well. You mean you have to wonder if your food is gross free?
I know I will probably get some blowback for this, but in addition to the law, the girls should be sat down for a meal and made to eat the meal after they watch someone spit on their food. Bet they won’t do that again!
How was the customer phoned, who has the customers phone number?
WARD: YES, exactly. I was wondering the same thing. How did that person know the customers phone number or name? Nobody explained that in the article, did they????? I just hope they ALL were fired that day…
written up/ seriously. Why weren’t they fired?
The employees were just written up and not fired???!!!! The manager should be fired also by the regional manager. That is so nasty! That should follow their work history forever! Although that happened at one location of Wendy’s, I would be reluctant to order from Wendy’s ever again, especially because of the way the management handled it.
EXACTLY
I totally agree 100% with the comment written by clyde. The parents today are so dumbed down by society, heaven forbid you discipline your child these days for doing something wrong, you have to worry about getting arrested for child abuse just because you struck their behind with a belt. If I had done what those kids did at that fast food place, my parents would have lit my behind up!
Written up ? That’s all Wendy’s itself is going to do about it. I won’t eat at Wendy’s ever again and I hope that anyone that reads this won’t either. Must be a black manager just like the three nasty employees.
My comment is ‘awaiting moderation’ Just another way to say ‘yur post will never see the light of day’
Looking at the names of these three douchebag employees I can tell exactly what they look like