Viral Popeyes TikTok gets rat-infested restaurant shut down TikTok \/ PixabayA TikToker went viral after he exposed a Popeyes restaurant for having a rat infestation. The clip led local health department officials to shut the \u201chazardous\u201d location down. TikTok user \u2018blaqazzrick01\u2032, who claims he delivers raw chicken to local Popeyes\u2019 in the area, uploaded his video of the Washington, DC restaurant in question on October 11, 2021. But it wasn\u2019t until October 29 when it was posted to Twitter that it went viral, leading to the fast food location swiftly being closed down. TikToker exposes rat-infested Popeyes \u201cY\u2019all wanna see something?\u201d the man began in his two-minute long TikTok as he stood outside the building. \u201cI deliver all raw chicken to all the Popeyes in the DC area. It\u2019s this joint right here, got some wild s**t.\u201d He then unlocked the door and walked through the restaurant to the kitchen in the back. As soon as he turned the lights on, multiple rats could be seen scurrying past unopened sacks and boxes of ingredients and up the wall into a ventilation shaft. \u201cLook at \u2019em! Look at them motherf**kers!\u201d he exclaimed before flipping the camera around to face himself. \u201cDo you still love that chicken from Popeyes?\u201d DC rats are wild! \ud83d\ude33\ud83e\udd2d\ud83d\ude37 pic.twitter.com\/LbnKmgk5jD \u2014 Washingtonian Problems (@WashProbs) October 29, 2021 The same day the clip went viral on Twitter, DC Councilmember Charles Allen revealed that the Popeyes location in question had been shut down. \u201c[The DC Department of Health] inspected and closed this site yesterday,\u201d he tweeted in response to a concerned local resident. Absolutely not is right! @_DCHealth inspected and closed this site yesterday. \u2014 Charles Allen (@charlesallen) October 30, 2021 According to Fox News, a notice is now stuck to the front of the restaurant, informing the public of the closure. \u201cThis establishment is ordered CLOSED until further notice for a violation of the District of Colombia food code regulations, which presents an imminent health hazard to the public,\u201d it reads. At the time of writing, it is unknown whether the Popeyes location will be closed permanently or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Viral Popeyes TikTok gets rat-infested restaurant shut down TikTok \/ PixabayA TikToker went viral after he exposed a Popeyes restaurant for having a rat infestation. The clip led local health department officials to shut the \u201chazardous\u201d location down. TikTok user \u2018blaqazzrick01\u2032, who claims he delivers raw chicken to local Popeyes\u2019 in the area, uploaded his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}