A video of a part-time student at Lotteria, a hamburger franchise, smoking in the kitchen, was uploaded to social media and then deleted, causing controversy.
Lotteria started an emergency sanitation check along with an understanding of the situation.
Yesterday (11th), a 6-7 second video uploaded to the short form video platform TikTok shows a woman wearing a hat with the Lotteria logo printed on it, holding a cigarette in her right hand and smoking.
The video showed a woman holding a dishcloth in one hand while smoking cigarette smoke next to kitchen facilities such as cooking facilities, refrigerators and sinks.
It was found that the person who filmed the video posted the video on his TikTok account and then deleted it after controversy, but the video in question had already spread online.
In this regard, a Lotte RGS official who operates Lotteria admitted, "The location in the video is a local Lotteria franchise." "It was confirmed that the video was taken in the kitchen by two part-timers who finished their late-night work. , they are immediately excluded from work.”
He added, "The store will also be closed until today (from yesterday when the video was checked)," he added.
Netizens who saw the video commented, "Only the owner of the store was struck by lightning", "You have to show the bitter taste of life by claiming damages", "Filming as a joke? If this is a joke, there will be more things in the kitchen than cigarettes" He looked and poured out his anger.
Meanwhile, last month, a part-time worker at a famous franchise chicken restaurant was caught smoking an electronic cigarette in the kitchen and cooking chicken, which drew the outrage of netizens.
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(Photo = TikTok capture, provided by the reader, Yonhap News)