A viral video from a Panda Express in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has drawn widespread criticism after customer and TikTok creator Paul Finger (@wardrogewinter) filmed an employee standing directly above an active fryer while another worker continued preparing food below.
Finger’s footage shows the employee climbing onto the fryer station and using cleaning products to wipe down the exhaust hood above the cooking area. As the employee worked overhead, another worker reached between their legs to place a bowl of food into one of the fryer baskets.
FOX6 News Milwaukee reported that the incident happened in early July at the Panda Express location on Miller Park Way. Finger told Storyful that he witnessed the employee on the equipment while food preparation was still taking place.
Viewers had a lot to say about what they saw
The footage quickly raised food-safety concerns, both because cleaning products appeared to be used above food still being prepared and because it revived memories of an earlier Panda Express complaint involving unusual-looking beef…