The Wendy’s stores in Northern California have reportedly lost $2.5 million after a woman claimed she found a human finger in her chili.
Anna Ayala claims to have bit into the finger and then spit it out and vomited. The only upside is that the finger was nicely manicured.
While the California stores claim to have lost business, the Wendy’s at 2485 S. University Blvd. reports no such problem.
“We have actually sold more chili since the incident,” said Assistant Manager Pedro Boero.
“It’s hard to say how that would happen,” said Boero, referring to the finger incident. “Health department inspectors come once a month and Wendy’s comes at least every other month.” Boero said that there was no official memo passed down from Wendy’s Corporation International.
“The only thing that changed is that when people order they ask for chili without a finger in it,” said Boero. A question that is funny, fair and creative. When asked whether or not they still eat at Wendy’s most DU students say they do.
“I’ve only gotten the chili once,” said Jock Goodrich, junior. “I love that place though.”
Will Parker, junior, managed to crack the chili case even before the police. “It was her dead grandma’s finger,” he said. “She put it in there herself, the crazy [beep].”
Of the students interviewed only one seemed to be grossed by the finger faux pas.
“It’s disgusting, man,” said Phil Zaranka, junior. “I honestly don’t think I’ll ever eat there again.”
Parker was the most adamant in his support of Wendy’s.
“It’s my post-bar hangout,” he said, referring to Wendy’s revolutionary “eat great even late” policy. “And anyways, I trust Dave Thomas. I trust what he says.”
The chain hired private investigators who found that Ayala had a litigious past, including a lawsuit she once brought against an El Pollo Loco. Now she is under arrest in Las Vegas for grand larceny, or stealing.
She is also charged with selling a mobile home that she didn’t own. The attempted grand larceny charge has nothing to do with the alleged incident at Wendy’s.
