The incident happened at a McDonald’s in South Station in Boston (Picture: NBC10 Boston)
A McDonald’s customer allegedly punched a worker in Boston for touching the lid of a drink he ordered.
Officers with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit (MBTA) Police arrested a 34-year-old man at 7pm on Saturday at South Station ‘after he attacked a McDonald’s employee striking him several times’ with his fists and the register, the agency wrote in an X (formerly Twitter) post.
The man ‘became upset when the employee touched the lid of his drink’, stated the MBTA on Sunday.
He was taken to the agency’s police headquarters to be booked.
A McDonald’s employee at South Station was punched several times by an angry customer (Picture: NBC10 Boston)
Meanwhile, the McDonald’s worker was treated at the scene. The victim’s condition was not immediately known.
The suspect’s name has not been released and he was expected to appear in court on Monday.
The fast food chain requires its workers in food preparation to wash their hands with antibacterial soap every half hour and those serving in the dining area to wash their hands at least once hourly, according to The Daily Meal. Some employees dealing with raw food are required to wear gloves.
McDonald’s has an ‘ongoing effort to elevate safety standards and procedures’, according to its corporate website. The chain’s rules around touching containers like drink lids is not clear.
The McDonald’s worker was treated at the scene (Picture: NBC10 Boston)
It is far from the only recent incident at the massive fast food chain.
At the end of last year, a pastor allegedly shoved a McDonald’s cook’s head toward a deep fryer and punched him in the face after his wife who was a manger-in-training claimed that employees were disrespecting her.
Witnesses said that Dwayne Waden went to his wife’s workplace in High Point, North Carolina, and attacked the cook who ‘suffered a large contusion to the forehead and right eye, along with scratches on his neck’, according to a police report.
The employee was taken to nearby hospital by family members. Waden was arrested and charged with assault and battery.
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