UPDATED: July 26, 2018 at 5:56 p.m. EST McDonald's returned our request for comment. Brent Bohn, a McDonald's owner and operator wrote in an email, "We do not condone the behavior depicted in this video, and are currently investigating." ORIGINAL POST: July 26, 2018 at 3:20 p.m EST A video posted on Facebook and Instagram shows a disturbing physical fight between a McDonald's employee and a customer. Another customer took the video and wrote on Instagram, "The lady asked for a water cup and supervisor shut down the soda machine because she wasn't letting her get a free soda." The two Instagram videos have since been deleted, but the second one showed the exchange before the fight. The customer is sitting and yelling over at the employee, who is behind the counter. Both are shouting at each other, and then the customer throws a french fry in the employee's direction. The first clip posted shows the employee coming out from behind the counter and approaching the customer, who then throws what appears to be a milkshake in the employee's direction. When she gets close enough, the customer hits her in the face with her tray, and it really escalates from there. YouTube.com / The Sun The employee begins punching the customer repeatedly, holding her down against the countertop. Then, she yanks her and throws her into a booth. Another employee steps in at that point, and tries to drag the customer away to break up the fight. This backfires though, when the customer begins fighting that employee. Then, the second employee begins hitting the woman and soon both employees are hitting her. YouTube.com / The Sun YouTube.com / The Sun The second employee is dragged away from someone else, and the first employee yanks the customer by her hair onto a table nearby. She shoves her and begins to walk away, when the customer picks up a chair and walks toward the employee. The video ends with the employee walking away and the woman returning to her seat. YouTube.com / The Sun The whole thing is quite unbelievable — luckily it didn't seem like anyone was seriously hurt at the end, though. Delish has reached out to McDonald's for comment, and we'll update the story accordingly. Con Poulos indigo.ca Maya McDowell Maya McDowell is an Assistant Editor at HearstMade. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Community Corner Vicious Brawl Breaks Out At McDonald's Over A Soda: Watch When a McDonald's customer tried to fill a water cup with soda, fists, tempers and words flew. Reply To be clear, we're not recommending that anyone try to pilfer a soda at a fast-food restaurant, or anywhere. You pay for what you drink. That's the rule of law. All we're saying is that random acts of petty theft, like one that recently occurred at a McDonald's restaurant and resulted in a vicious brawl, were settled without the whole world knowing about it in the days before everyone had a video camera in their hand. What Marie Dayag captured on video at a McDonald's restaurant demonstrates that clearly. People can't seem to get enough of almost everyone involved behaving badly. The video starts after a woman asked for a cup for water, which is free. When she tried to sneak soda into the empty cup, a worker shut down the soda machine. Problem solved, right? No, not even close. All hell broke loose. The video, which Dayag originally posted on Facebook and then on YouTube after Facebook took it down, begins when the fight was already in progress. It shows the customer throwing what appears to be a milkshake at the McDonald's worker. Fists started flying. The worker started punching the customer and threw her face-forward into a counter. She put up a fight, but the worker tossed her into a booth. Another customer tried to defuse the situation as another McDonald's worker forcefully walked the woman away from the situation. (Get Across America Patch's daily newsletter and real-time news alerts. Or, find your local Patch here and subscribe. Like us on Facebook. Also, download the free Patch iPhone app or free Patch Android app.) But the customer, the one who had tried to get the free soda, didn't go quietly and the situation continued to fall apart. She started throwing elbows at the employee, who retaliated with a sharp slap and grabbed her by the hair. The first employee got involved again, pulling the woman's hair and shoving her backward into a table. "My momma ain't dead, you respect my momma," the employee shouted as the woman walked away. But the brawl wasn't over yet. The customer charged back, a chair in hand and appeared to be ready to hurl it at the worker when she took it away.<doc-sep>McDonald’s Fight (I RECORDED THIS VIDEO)“This video is exclusively licensed by UNILAD. For all licensing enquiries, please contact licensing@unilad.co.uk” So this happened at McDonald’s… the lady asked for a water cup and supervisor shut down the soda machine because she wasn’t letting her get a free soda. I’ll make a new video about the whole story tomorrow. Make sure you… 2018-07-27T00:27:05.000Z A McDonald’s employee was caught on camera brutally beating a customer after a fight broke out over a free soda. Nevada resident Marie Dayag filmed the confrontation and uploaded it to Instagram. According to Dayag, a customer, who has been identified as Sabrinah Fontelar, asked for a water cup and then allegedly tried to fill it with soda. The McDonald’s supervisor, Erika Chavolla, turned off the soda machine to prevent the woman from filling her water cup with a soft drink, which angered Fontelar. In the original footage, the Fontelar can be seen yelling “fight me,” and throwing a french fry at Chavolla shortly before the fight broke out. Chavolla steps out from behind the counter and Fontelar throws a milkshake at her and hits her in the face with a food tray right, sparking the chaos that followed. Chavolla then grabs Fontelar and starts punching her repeatedly in the face while another employee tries to break up the fight. Chavolla violently swings the woman across a table and continues to pummel her before the second employee tries to intervene. However, the second employee takes an elbow to the face by Fontelar in the process, gives up trying to restrain her, and throws a few punches herself. Chavolla takes back over, throws Fontelar on the table again and starts shouting “you talk about my mom b–ch, my mama ain’t dead, you respect my mama.” Chavolla then starts to walk away before Fontelar comes after her again, this time brandishing a chair. Chavolla takes the chair, sets it back on the floor and walks away. Video of the argument that led to the confrontation was shared by the Daily Mail Friday afternoon. In the new footage, Fontelar can be heard swearing at Chavolla as she works, before throwing a French fry at the counter. The video, obtained by the Daily Mail, shows Fontelar calling Chavolla a “b–ch,” a “fat ass,” and repeatedly telling her to “fight me. The McDonald’s location at which the fight occurred was not reported, but one report suggested the incident took place at a Las Vegas restaurant. Several users on Twitter backed Chavolla, asking McDonald’s to not fire her and claiming it was clear from the video that the customer started the confrontation. Some even told McDonald’s to give her a raise. Donta Morrison wrote: “I truly hope this worker doesn’t lose her job behind this ignorant ‘wanna be entitled at McDonald’s’ chick.” I don’t normally share fight videos. Nor do I condone violence, BUT let this be a lesson to those who start stuff they can’t finish. I truly hope this worker doesn’t lose her job behind this ignorant ‘wanna be entitled at McDonalds’ chick. https://t.co/fxQuiHzROE — Donta Morrison (@TheDontaShow) July 26, 2018 “Are you f*cking kidding me? She stated the fight, what were the employees supposed to do? It was self defense from a horrible and entitle customer. Don’t start fights you can’t finish, and the customer is not always right!” Might Boy wrote. Another Twitter user wrote: “If corporate fires the employee over the fight with the rude customer, that is very wrong on your part. They were defending themselves and the company. They should be rewarded for their actions. DO NOT FIRE OR ARREST THESE EMPLOYEES! !” @McDonalds if corporate fires the employees over the fight with the rude customer, that is very wrong on your part. They were defending themselves and the company. They should be rewarded for their actions. DO NOT FIRE OR ARREST THESE EMPLOYEES!!!! — J ! M (@jt_andrews) July 26, 2018 @McDonalds can the woman in the white shirt who got in the fight pleaseeeee be employee of the year? #mcdonalds #fight #whatwouldwendysdo — Ryan (@davidryanmartin) July 26, 2018 Others weren’t so impressed by the employee’s actions, stating she should be ashamed of herself, and fired immediately because a soda isn’t worth that kind of reaction. SalemBlueCruz wrote: “those behemoths better be fired and I hope that girl sues too! All this over soda?! ?” .10 cent cup of soda, yep good reason for a fight. Probably first time in history of McDonalds this has happened .? #fireher — Jim Mona (@scienceinvestme) July 26, 2018 Someone should SUE and somebodies should be FIRED! Soda in a water cup is not the serious!!! I’m for sure TAG-TEAM BEATDOWNS by employees are against @McDonaldsCorp @McDonalds!!! Imagine a little kids seeing this!SMDH!!! https://t.co/jmNVIzQ71T — Marie St. Lucie (@MarieStLucie1) July 26, 2018 Other Twitter users did what the internet does best and churned out memes and McDonald’s puns. “Did yall see that fight at McDonalds? I know [BurgerKing] was watching closely because that lady was throwing some whoppers,” Nick Russo wrote. “Don’t think the one girl is ‘lovin’ it,'” another user posted. Did yall see that fight at McDonalds? I know @BurgerKing was watching closely because that lady was throwing some whoppers. — Nick Russo (@Kingnickrusso) July 26, 2018<doc-sep>
Two McDonald's employees physically fought a customer on Wednesday night after she allegedly tried to fill a free water cup with soda—which customers must pay for—from the soda machine. Marie Dayag shared a video of the incident on Facebook and explained that she was at McDonald's when the customer, dressed in grey shorts and a black shirt, asked for a water cup. When she began filling it with soda, the restaurant's supervisor allegedly shut the machine down. Dayag's video begins while the argument is already in progress, and shows the customer throwing what appears to be a milkshake at the employee, who is dressed in a white shirt and black pants. The employee approached the customer, clearly irate, and began punching her. Seconds later, the employee hurled the woman face-forward into a table. Another employee, dressed in a blue shirt, intervened and grabbed the customer. A man in a dark blue shirt also got up and attempted to intervene between the customer and the employee. Then, as one employee walked the woman away, apparently attempting to defuse the situation, the woman elbowed her in the face. The employee then retaliated by slapping and punching the woman, and grabbing her by the hair. Later, the employee in the white shirt grabbed the customer by the hair and threw her backwards into a table. "My momma ain't dead, you respect my momma," the employee shouted. The customer then picked up a chair, as if to throw it at the employee in the white shirt. The employee grabbed the chair from her and the video ends with someone saying, "Don't try me." It's unclear which McDonald's the altercation occurred in. But according to Dayag's Facebook page, she lives in Las Vegas. "We do not condone the behavior depicted in this video and are currently investigating," Brent Bohn, McDonald's owner and operator, told Newsweek in a statement. The video had been viewed over 180,000 times and shared over 5,000 times by Thursday at 3:00 p.m. ET, only 12 hours after it was posted. This article has been updated to include response from McDonald's.