On February 15, some netizens broke the news that after the employees of Fat Donglai Food City in Xuchang, Henan Province quietly squatted down to taste noodles, they stirred in the pot without cleaning chopsticks.
At about 19:30 on February 16, Fat Donglai issued a statement on the situation of "Food City employees did not try staff meals according to the standards". The statement said: In the video, the tasting employee was making the day's staff meal fried noodles in the hot pot roundabout operating table, and after checking the monitoring and verifying with the employees concerned, the employees took out the noodles from the cooking bucket and tasted them, and continued to use them to stir the noodles in the pot without replacing the chopsticks, and did not taste them in accordance with the tasting standards, which is a serious food processing safety accident.
Fat Donglai announced the results of the incident:
Sincerely thank customers for helping to find problems, issue suggestions to customers and mail a gift;
Terminate the employment contract of the employee concerned;
Downgrade the relevant supervisor by one level for three months;
Due to "insufficient management ability and professional ability, the hot pot stall is currently closed and no hot pot category is made".
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