text: The restaurant chain Golden Corral was a hot topic on Reddit Monday morning as images surfaced of purported disgusting kitchen conditions and a video by an alleged employee charged that the chain keeps its meat by the dumpster. 
   
   A Reddit user named GCWhistleblower posted four pictures of a kitchen overflowing with garbage near food that is spilling out of boxes. The caption: "Just an average day for a Golden Corral Employee, best working conditions ever!" 
   
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   That, coupled with the video above, has prompted a subReddit devoted to the chain. 
   
   A rep from the chain offered the following statement: 
   
   A video was recently posted showing an incident of improper food handling at our Port Orange, Fla., location. None of these items were served to a single customer. All were destroyed within the hour at the direction of management. Brandon Huber, the employee who made the video, participated in the disposal of the food. 
   
   
   
   The following day, the father of the employee, posted an offer to sell the video for $5,000, which was not accepted. 
   
   
   
   The manager involved in the improper storage was terminated for failing to follow approved food handling procedures. 
   
   Huber could not be reached for comment. 
   
   The barrage comes after images of a Taco Bell employee licking some taco shells emerged on Facebook last month. In general, restaurant chains appear uniquely vulnerable to such charges. The first such example of this phenomenon appears to be a Domino's Pizza YouTube scandal in 2009 that showed a couple of rogue employees doing disgusting things to pizzas intended for customers. Such incidences illustrate how images and videos on social media can undo millions of dollars in advertising. 
   
   Image courtesy of Flickr, Rob_rob2001 ||||| Golden Corral cook Brandon Huber actually likes his job at the national buffet chain's Port Orange, Florida, location. 
   
   That's why he tried going directly to Golden Corral management first before reaching out to the media about his restaurant's ironic efforts to avoid receiving poor health inspection marks. 
   
   But after being turned down by a number of news outlets, Huber decided to speak directly to the Internet about his branch's practice of storing both raw and cooked foods near the dumpster ahead of the health inspector's visit. 
   
   "I'm an employee, I've been working here for a long time, and I don't think this is right," Huber informed his viewers in the fast-rising video. 
   
   The young man is being compared to whistleblower Edward Snowden, albeit with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but the blowback Golden Corral is likely to receive from this bad practice is no joke. 
   
   UPDATE: Golden Corral has just responded to Huber's claims in the video's comments section (thanks Lamont!): 
   
   UPDATE 2: Huber filmed a follow-up video briefly discussing why he chose to bring this practice to light. 
   
   In an official statement sent to Gawker, Golden Corral reiterated its claim that the food was destroyed without being served to customers, and that Huber personally participated in the food's disposal. 
   
   They further allege that Huber's dad tried to sell the video to the company for $5,000 — an offer that was rejected. 
   
   As for ramifications, Metro Corral Partners says the manager was terminated "for failing to follow approved food handling procedures." No word yet on Huber's current employment status.
target: – Food chains around the country must rue the day someone decided to add cameras to phones. Golden Corral is the latest to have its dirty ground beef aired online, as Reddit exploded this morning in reaction to a video from one employee showing all manner of meat camped out near the dumpster in what he alleged was an attempt to hide it from food inspectors, Mashable reports. "I've been working here for a long time, and I don't think this is right," says cook Brandon Huber, who shows his face and identifies himself on camera. Golden Corral later commented on the video, saying that the food was never served to customers, that it was thrown away immediately, and that the manager at the restaurant was terminated, Gawker reports. It also accuses Huber of trying to sell the video, and says he participated in disposing of the food.