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China is making a lot of noise over hygiene issues at Pizza Hut.
Using expired ingredients and using oil too many times, the color completely changed, Correspondent Kim Ji-seong from Beijing reported.
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A Pizza Hut store in Beijing.
The expiration dates for beef and seafood, which were supposed to be until Monday, changed to Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, when the day passed.
The store staff changed the expiry date label.
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[Pizza Hut employee: (It's spoiled. Many of them have expired.) Change it tomorrow.
You can use it one more day.
Annoying.]
Another store used the same technique.
Mushrooms, sausages, lemons, and noodles were also used after their expiration date had passed.
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Cooking oil was also an issue.
I continued to use it until the color of the cooking oil changed to ink, and the level of harmful ingredients was more than double the standard value.
[Pizza Hut employee: (The oil meter is broken, do you change (cooking oil) once a week?) Change it to a feeling.
It's not black yet.
If the fries become dark, you can change them then.]
This situation was revealed while a Chinese journalist who worked undercover at the store secretly filmed it.
This pizza brand has more than 2,600 stores in China.
Authorities entered into simultaneous sanitation checks.
Earlier, last year, Starbucks, a coffee shop, was also caught using expired ingredients, and 10 days ago, a video was released of a McDonald's employee picking up bread dropped on the floor and using it.
Hygiene problems at global food and beverage companies headquartered in the United States are emerging one after another in China.
(Video coverage: Choi Duk-hyun, video editing: Choi Jin-hwa, CG: Seo Seung-hyun, screen source: Shin Kyungbo, Weibo)