‘Felt sick to my stomach’: restaurant in China caught mixing orange juice with tap water from mop sink apologises and demotes manager
- Mop sink tap incident sparks outrage online amid increasing frustration over food safety standards in China
- Customer videoing incident seen by a worker mixing the juice who tried to hide evidence while other staff tried to stop him filming
A restaurant in China is embroiled in a food hygiene scandal after an employee was caught on camera mixing tap water from a floor mop sink with orange juice.
Tianye Restaurant, a chain based in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, eastern China has apologised after news of the incident trended online, according to a report by the news outlet Jimu News.
A video taken by a customer shows a restaurant employee placing a large pot of concentrated orange juice into a basin used for washing mops and adding tap water.
Mops and brooms can be seen in the clip hanging next to the basin, a dustpan containing rubbish can also be seen nearby.
When the employee realised she was being videoed, she immediately removed the bucket of juice mix from the basin and poured it into a serving pot as other staff members tried to stop the man filming.