Burger King Scrambling After Feet-in-Lettuce Photo Hits Web

Three employees fired from Ohio location

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It only takes a few bad apples, along with some dirty lettuce, to give a fast-food company some major headaches. Much as Domino's did in 2009, Burger King is now scrambling to contain the damage after footage of employees behaving in a disgusting manner leaked on to the Internet. This time, it's a photo of a Burger King worker standing in some lettuce. The image was initially uploaded to 4Chan and captioned, "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King."

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