Poor little girl...

[Estil]

can i ask why the father didnt kick up a fuss there and then? I'd be mighty furious and asking for a manager if i opened my daughters burger and found that much pepper. it sounds too deliberate

Perhaps the initial shock of the situation? That often happens to me; when I have something said/done to me that is so shocking/appalling, that it doesn't really hit me until a few minutes afterwards.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Read the OP. Saw RED.

Had it been my little girl, I don't know if I could have stopped myself from going full-on RAGEBASTARD.

That father has far more lenience than I do, and I'll admit, I can be pretty laid-back myself.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ummm, yeah, food tampering much?

Even if I couldn't prove who loaded up the burger with pepper, I'd still be complaining. Loudly and publicly. Preferably as soon as the daughter started complaining.

But because this happened in the past and the burger has since been discarded, there's probably not much that can be done now.

[Shalom]

Shat is not a sucky employee. That is a criminal offense.

Oh hell yes. I'd have called the cops myself and had the employee arrested and charged with assault. No idea whether the charge would stick in court, but worth a shot.

This also deserves to be escalated all the way up to Corporate. Food tampering is Just Not On, no matter how pissed off the employees get, and (as pointed out up-thread) there wasn't even any reason for them to have got pissed off in the first place.

[EricKei]

Pepper does not go on ANY standard burger at any restaurant I've ever heard of o_O For a "specialty" burger that has added spices, sure, but not a plain ol' burger burger. x.x

Not an accident!

The worker's attitude when bringing it out to them confirms that she was angry, I should think.

[Brojekk]

Pepper does not go on ANY standard burger at any restaurant I've ever heard of o_O For a "specialty" burger that has added spices, sure, but not a plain ol' burger burger. x.x

Not an accident!

The worker's attitude when bringing it out to them confirms that she was angry, I should think.

Her attitude also says she knew about it. She's an accomplice. Especially since she took off so fast immediatly afterwards.

[PepperElf]

Ummm, yeah, food tampering much?

Indeed. I was thinking about this over the weekend and realized "food tampering" would apply.

[Seshat]

Pepper does not go on ANY standard burger at any restaurant I've ever heard of o_O

Where I am, it's standard at non-chain places for the worker to ask if the customer wants salt and/or pepper. Usually by the worker standing next to the salt and pepper shakers and asking "salt and pepper?", with the customer expected to state her preference. And the salt and pepper is almost always added right in view of the customer.

And McDonald's, Burger King and other such chains don't add pepper, unless it's mixed into the patty.

[PepperElf]

only problem now is that, if he hasn't complained about it yet, it may be too late. he can try, but without proof of the pepper-covered burger he'll have to rely on the manager believing him, or the employee having a past history of food tampering.

[Kitten in the box]

That was a cruel thing to do. Because the guy complained and asked for a PLAIN burger, the woman took it out on the little girl because A) she was mad at the guy and B) she new the little girl couldn't do anything about it.

I'd complain to management and I'd that don't do anything them go to corporate

[XCashier]

only problem now is that, if he hasn't complained about it yet, it may be too late. he can try, but without proof of the pepper-covered burger he'll have to rely on the manager believing him, or the employee having a past history of food tampering.

That's what I'm thinking. He should've asked for a manager then and there.

Pacifism is all well and good, but when one's kids are being hurt, that goes right out the window. And it's not as if he was looking to punch out that nasty employee, he had a legitimate complaint.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke

[Ree]

Well, one of the things that does irk me a bit is that he posted about it on Facebook and got a large group of people all angered and riled up, threatening to never go to that particular spot again, but it doesn't seem that he has bothered to bring it to anyone's attention to find out why it happened.

The reputation of a whole place may have been ruined because of one bad employee, but he hasn't given managment any kind of heads' up or a chance to make it right.

Think of all the people that story has been retold to, and we all know how stories change with time and retelling, yet he hasn't seemed to make any kind of effort to contact the management.
Their sales could be suffering, and they won't even have a clue why.
Also, she could do it again to somebody else.

Now, the fact that one of his friends was also an employee at that location, and she was vehemently defending the place, probably means that it has gotten back to the manager, but they won't really have a clue who, exactly, was involved, since it's hearsay at that point.
She may also have put a different spin on it so that, if he does decide to actually do something, the manager will have a completely different reaction than if he had just spoken up right away.

[Whirly_bird]

Eh, I think you should be lucky that's all he did. Can't say what I'd do if someone was malicious like that to my granddaughter(s), but it sure wouldn't be a post on Facebook.

[shopgirl15]

A pic on FB of the pepper covered burger with the accompanying story could have easily gone viral.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'd make a formal complaint, if this happened to me and my niece. It could have been so much worse; what if the girl had been allergic to pepper or something like that? It was obviously done out of nothing but pure spite, and it might not even be the first time this person has done it. They need to be reprimanded at best, kicked to the kerb at worst if they have spiked a burger before.