Reddit Serves Up a PR Crisis to Golden Corral

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By Todd Wasserman2013-07-08 13:26:03 UTC

The restaurant chain Golden Corral was a hot topic on Reddit Monday morning as images surfaced of purported disgusting kitchen conditions and a video by an alleged employee charged that the chain keeps its meat by the dumpster to avoid health inspectors.

A Reddit user named GCWhistleblower posted four pictures of a kitchen overflowing with garbage near food that is spilling out of boxes. The caption: "Just an average day for a Golden Corral Employee, best working conditions ever!"

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That, coupled with the video above, has prompted a subReddit devoted to the chain.

Reps from Golden Corral could not immediately be reached for comment. The brand does not appear to have responded to the charges on Reddit or on its social media accounts.

The barrage comes after images of a Taco Bell employee licking some taco shells emerged on Facebook last month. In general, restaurant chains appear uniquely vulnerable to such charges. The first such example of this phenomenon appears to be a Domino's Pizza YouTube scandal in 2009 that showed a couple of rogue employees doing disgusting things to pizzas intended for customers. Such incidences illustrate how images and videos on social media can undo millions of dollars in advertising.

Image courtesy of Flickr, Rob_rob2001

Topics: Business, Golden Corral, Marketing, reddit