Mother finds blood in Burger King meal after daughter takes bite thinking it’s ketchup

A Burger King near Buffalo, New York closed temporarily over the weekend after a customer found blood in her daughter’s food.

On July 26, Tiffany Floyd from New York posted a TikTok video about a troubling experience she had with her four-year-old daughter Matayla at a Burger King in Getzville, New York.

“Today I went to Burger King by my house,” Floyd says, adding that she got a kids meal for her daughter consisting of a burger and fries. “Obviously, I’m a busy mom, I just gave her the bag to eat the food.”

As they were driving away from the restaurant, Matayla started eating her burger and noticed something was wrong.

“I heard, ‘Mom, I don’t want ketchup,’ so I take the bag back thinking that they messed up our order,” she continues, before using her rubber-gloved hand to show her daughter’s burger to the camera. “I look in her bag and there is blood all over her bag, her toys, her fries, everything.”

Floyd said she then stopped the car and called Burger King to ask about the food. The manager told her that a worker had injured his finger right before making and packing their order. The manager offered a refund if they came back.

Floyd decided to call the local health department to report the incident.

Her video went viral, getting over 8 million views, 1 million likes, and more than 12,000 comments. Many people sympathized with her and gave advice on what to do next.

A Burger King representative said the restaurant closed over the weekend to retrain all the staff and hired an outside company to do a deep cleaning. They also mentioned that all staff were fully paid for any lost shifts during the temporary closure.

The restaurant reopened on Monday, July 29.