One Taco Bell restaurant was scammed out of thousands of dollars via a phony phone call that should have triggered a number of red flags for the employees involved, but apparently did not. [More]
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Police Looking For Daughter Who Assaulted Mom With McDonald’s Cheeseburger
By 3.20.17
A woman in Indianapolis is wanted for alleged assault with a ketchup-y weapon, after an argument at a local McDonald’s resulted in someone taking a partially eaten cheeseburger to the face. [More]
Very Angry Man Rams Car Into Jack In The Box Restaurant Twice
By 4.11.16
It was clear that the man who drove into a Jack In The Box restaurant in Koreatown, Los Angeles, didn’t do it by accident. He backed up and rammed into the building a second time. There were around 20 to 25 customers in the store at the time, and no one was injured. The restaurant can be repaired, and the drive-thru is open. [More]
Stay Away Kids; This McDonald’s Is For Adults Only
By 4.28.15
The default setting for teenagers is “obnoxious,” and anyone who’s ever worked in fast food knows just how insufferable some adolescents can be when released into the wild without adult supervision. But are pre-adults so unmanageable that they have to be banned from entering a McDonald’s? [More]
McDonald’s Employee Caught On Camera Knocking Out Unruly Customer
By 4.27.15
An apparent attempt to remove an unruly customer from a Michigan McDonald’s resulted in a knockout punch from an employee at the fast food chain. [More]
Popeyes Manager Says She Was Fired For Refusing To Pay Back Money Stolen By Armed Robber
By 4.22.15
When a fast food eatery is held up, should the manager on duty be responsible for reimbursing the owner? Common sense might tell you “no,” but a former Popeyes employee claims that she was fired after she refused to pay her employer for the money stolen during her shift by an armed robber. [More]
McDonald’s Won’t Serve Pedestrian At Drive-Thru, So He Steals Customer’s Car
By 9.24.14
For many of us, that brief time between placing your order at the fast food drive-thru and waiting for your food is a couple minutes to do a whole lot of nothing; maybe get your wallet out, change the radio station, check your makeup in the rearview mirror. One thing you’re probably not expecting is to be carjacked. [More]
This Taco Bell Now Closed Afternoons After Becoming High School Fight Club
By 9.18.14
If I ran a Taco Bell or any other fast food restaurant, I’d do anything to keep my doors open during the afternoon hours to make money from customers grabbing late lunches, early dinners, and mid-afternoon snacks. But one Bell eatery in California says it can’t be open in the afternoons thanks to local high school kids who have turned the franchise into a fight club. [More]
KFC Workers Attacked By Cake-Wielding Maniac
By 9.17.14
Angry fast food customers are choosing to go after employees at Yum! Brands restaurant chains with some bizarre weapons. First there was the Taco Bell worker who took a hot sauce-laced soda to the face and now comes a report of a KFC that had to call the police on a cake-thrower. [More]
Burger King Employee Beats Up Former Co-Worker Who Attempted To Rob Restaurant
By 9.10.14
In a move that would probably get him fired if he worked at Walmart, a Burger King employee in Ohio fought off a knife-wielding wannabe robber, who happened to have previously worked at that restaurant (and whose special lady friend still works there). [More]
World’s Worst Taco Bell Customer Grabs Employee’s Butt Through Drive-Thru Window
By 9.2.14
We understand that Taco Bell’s sole reason to exist is to sate customers’ gluttonous cravings. But while it’s okay to satisfy your lust for cheese and meat-like product with a burrito, it’s most definitely not okay to give into an idiotic desire to grab a Taco Bell employee’s rear-end. [More]
Drunk, Angry Customer Pulls Employee Through Wendy’s Drive-Thru Window
By 8.14.14
One might think that working at a fast food drive-thru window would provide some measure of protection from angry customers who want to leap over the counter and do bad things to you, but that is apparently not the case. [More]
Hot Sauce-Filled Soda Is Weapon Of Choice For One Taco Bell Customer
By 8.8.14
We’re pretty sure that throwing any beverage at a Taco Bell employee will get you booted and banned from the store. But since you’re at Taco Bell, why not include some hot sauce in the beverage bomb you toss in the Bell staffer’s face? [More]
A Man Walks Into McDonald’s With Knife In His Back; There’s No Punchline
By 6.25.14
Imagine you’re just minding your own business, waiting in line for some fast food breakfast at your local McDonald’s when a man walks in. Something seems a bit off about him. Is it the way he walks? Perhaps it’s something about the conversation he’s having on his phone. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the huge, bloody kitchen knife sticking out of his back. [More]
Of All The Things To Steal From Subway Restaurant, Customer Walks Off With Toilet
By 5.13.14
Your local Subway sandwich shop has all sorts of things one could (but shouldn’t) steal — like cash registers, food items, and kitchen supplies. But one Seattle-area man overlooked all of those common-sense possibilities and decided he’d be different; he’d steal the toilet. [More]
Man Takes Kids To Chuck E. Cheese’s For Wholesome Purse-Snatching Fun
By 5.2.14
For decades, Chuck E. Cheese’s has been a place where parents could bring their kids for wholesome activities like chowing down on overpriced pizza, running around uncontrollably, and playing around in pits of plastic balls that you convince yourself aren’t covered in germs. But one man in Washington state recently added another game to the mix, called “Go steal some purses and give them to me.” [More]
Pizza Hut Manager Helped Boyfriend Rob Her Own Store… 3 Times In 4 Months
By 4.28.14
It’s bad enough when a fast food manager assists in the robbery of the very store she’s entrusted to manage. It’s even worse when the person robbing the business is that manager’s boyfriend. But helping that no-good boyfriend pull off three robberies in only a few months, well… to quote Jaime Lannister, “The things I do for love.” [More]
Taco Bell Employee Guilty Of Threatening Co-Worker With Knife In Front Of Customers
By 4.11.14
Dear Taco Bell employees: If you’re going to threaten one another with knives (which, for the record, we do not recommend), kindly do so out of the view of customers; and certainly don’t threaten your fellow employee while he or she is in the middle of taking an order from a customer. [More]
