Video taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purportedly shows a Panda Express worker stepping around food while cleaning a frying station area, as meals were being prepared. (Credit: Paul Elisha Finger via Storyful)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A video has emerged purportedly showing a Panda Express employee stepping around food while\u00a0cleaning a frying station, as meals were being prepared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paul Elisha Finger, who captured the footage,\u00a0told Storyful that he “noticed the gentleman jump on the fryer that the lady had just put food into” when he visited a Panda Express location in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in early July.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The worker then “started spraying the chemical and wiping [while] standing right over the food,” according to Finger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I could not believe my eyes,” Finger told Storyful.\u00a0<\/p>\n
POPULAR BEER BRAND TO CUT 220 JOBS AS PRODUCTION SHIFTS<\/strong><\/p>\n A video taken inside a Panda Express restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purportedly showed a worker standing around food while cleaning a frying station area.<\/span> (Paul Elisha Finger via Storyful \/ Storyful)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n FOX Business has reached out to Panda Express for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n The video shows a female employee reaching\u00a0through the cleaner\u2019s legs to drop a bowl of food into one of the fry baskets, as the male worker apparently was cleaning the exhaust hood area of the fry station.\u00a0<\/p>\n E COLI AND SALMONELLA OUTBREAK LINKED TO ALFALFA SPROUTS SICKENS DOZENS ACROSS MULTIPLE STATES<\/strong><\/p>\n A Panda Express worker is seen reaching through the legs of another employee to drop a bowl of food into a fryer.<\/span> (Paul Elisha Finger via Storyful \/ Storyful)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Panda Express says on its website that its food is a “flavorful combination of Chinese regional cuisine and technique with bold American tastes.”\u00a0<\/p>\n A video taken inside a Panda Express restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purportedly showed a worker standing around food while cleaning a frying station area.<\/span> (Paul Elisha Finger via Storyful \/ Storyful)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n “Panda Express, the nation\u2019s largest Asian restaurant chain, has revolutionized American Chinese cuisine. Founded in 1983, the family-owned business has grown into a culinary powerhouse, seamlessly marrying authentic Chinese flavors with American tastes,” adds Panda Restaurant Group, Inc., on its website. “With over 2,600 locations worldwide, Panda Express has played a pivotal role in popularizing American Chinese cuisine to millions around the world.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Video taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purportedly shows a Panda Express worker stepping around food while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Panda](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/931\/523\/panda-express-shoe.gif?ve=1&tl=1\")
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