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Showing Original Post only (View all)Panera Bread worker says TikTok video showing frozen mac-and-cheese got her fired [View all]
Source: CBS News
A former Panera Bread employee apparently paid a stiff price for appearing in a video showing the chain's popular macaroni and cheese is pre-packaged and frozen.
Shared on the app TikTok with the caption "exposing Panera," the short video which has amassed more than 6 million views shows a plastic packet of frozen mac and cheese dropped into boiling water, cut open and poured into a bowl. A woman with a Panera Bread cap then gives a thumbs up over the ready-to-serve meal.
The woman in the video on Friday announced on Twitter that "I lost my job for this."
Link to tweet
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According to Panera, it sells more than 3 million mac-and-cheese servings a month "Our mac and cheese is made off site with our proprietary recipe developed by our chefs and using our sourced ingredients that met our standards for our clean menu offerings," the spokesperson said. "It is shipped frozen to our baker cafes this allows us to avoid using certain preservatives that do not meet our clean standards."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/panera-bread-worker-says-she-was-fired-for-video-showing-frozen-mac-and-cheese/
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Panera Bread worker says TikTok video showing frozen mac-and-cheese got her fired [View all]
groundloop
Oct 2019
OP
Heated plastic against the fat of the cheese gets all of the chemicals into your tummy.
Beakybird
Oct 2019
#1
Kids - if you embarrass your employer on the Internet you may get fired. n/t
PoliticAverse
Oct 2019
#8
was the poster being literal re: only cod? & if she/he was, cod is caught in the mid-Atlantic, and
spooky3
Oct 2019
#129
Got food poisoning from their mac and cheese a few years ago, haven't eaten there since.
Ace Rothstein
Oct 2019
#21
I guess. It changed my perception of Panera when I learned how they don't prepare much
Politicub
Oct 2019
#93
A lot of people initially couldn't even figure out what they meant by "clean" food.
LisaL
Oct 2019
#44
there are whistleblower laws to protect employees reporting actual wrongdoing...
Takket
Oct 2019
#134
Calling someone a "retard" is not "brutal honesty." It is a bigoted insult. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#117
The original Mueller's mac N cheese reecipe is still my favorite. It is not on the box you buy now
dameatball
Oct 2019
#33
I would be concerned about plastic particles being in it after they boil the plastic bag with it.
LisaL
Oct 2019
#45
Fair point. I'm contending they could make the argument for why they do it that way.
Gore1FL
Oct 2019
#46
Exactly. Instead, they retaliated against a whistleblower who exposed their fraud.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#60
People, people, people, mac and cheese is so easy to make. Start cooking at home.
YOHABLO
Oct 2019
#48
I prefer to be disappointed in the perpetrators of the fraud, rather than the victims. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#64
Frozen isn't the issue. It's the misleading ads, suggesting it's made from scratch.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#136
If your doctor tells you that you don't get enough saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, and refined
progree
Oct 2019
#115
Panera is committing a fraud upon their customers suggesting they cook from scratch.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#59
The term has meaning and implications, you're just trying to redefine it into meaninglessness. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#118
Panera fraudulently implies you're not getting boil-in-the-bag food, when in fact you are.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#92
In the 1980s, they had frozen foods you dropped in water to thaw then serve.
Farmer-Rick
Oct 2019
#105