SUSHI WORKER FIRED FOR LYING ABOUT HALLOWEEN CANDY APOLOGY
An Alabama sushi restaurant has fired an off-duty employee who was filmed taking nearly an entire bowl of Halloween candy left out for trick-or-treaters. Sakana Sushi Bar & Grill in Hoover let her go after learning she had lied about apologizing to the homeowner, Taylor Wilson, who said the apology actually came from the other woman in the video.
The footage, shared on Facebook, shows two women walking up to a bucket left outside a home and taking handfuls of candy until very little remained. One of them was wearing a shirt with the Sakana logo, according to Dexerto. The Daily Mail reports the clip came from Wilson’s video doorbell and that the home is in Helena, Alabama.
The person who posted it was not feeling generous. “Greedy adults stole almost the entire bowl of candy!!! literally left almost nothing for the children!! absolutely pathetic,” they wrote, tagging the restaurant and asking if one of the women worked there.
Sakana responded on Facebook, saying it knew about the video and was looking into it. “We take this matter seriously and want to make it clear that we do not condone any behavior that takes away from children or negatively impacts our community,” the statement read.
The restaurant later confirmed to AL.com that the woman who took the candy was an off-duty employee. A spokesperson first said she had returned the candy and apologized to Wilson on Sunday morning.
Wilson disputed that. She told the restaurant the apology had come from the other woman in the video, not the employee.
Sakana then confirmed the employee had lied and ended her employment. “Lying to us after knowing how important everything is and how important we told her this is to us and to the entire community and we basically told her that she can no longer be working with us anymore,” a spokesperson said.
The Daily Mail also reports the restaurant said it would offer every guest a discount for the next two weeks.
Wilson told the Daily Mail that some people have blamed her for the candy being taken and the employee losing her job, and that she had not known she needed to guard the candy all night. “I don’t see how people don’t realize that when you wear your uniform outside work, you represent your company, so it’s not my fault that her workplace was involved in this,” she said.
