Two Chinese restaurants were singled out for using outdated ingredients. The American fast-food giant, Burger King, offered its "sincerest apologies" after the broadcast of a report on public television.
In a popular program, broadcast Thursday by CCTV, an employee of a Burger King in Nanchang, China, is seen replacing the labels on packages of expired bread. In another restaurant in the city, an employee falsifies the expiration date of the chicken.
Regularly hit by food scandals
Burger King said "take the incident seriously" and closed the restaurants for inspection, in a statement. The subject arouses, this Friday, many reactions on Chinese social networks, in a country regularly hit by food scandals.
Burger King, which has more than a thousand restaurants in China, employs some 25,000 people in the country. In 2014, the Chinese authorities had closed a factory suspected of having sold expired meat to large catering companies including McDonald's, KFC or Pizza Hut (Yum group).
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