Video allegedly catches Wendy’s employee washing her hair in restaurant sink: “Shut Wendy’s down now”
The video raised even more questions after commenters claimed the woman was a manager and the sink was used for food prep.
A woman appearing to rinse her hair in a sink inside a Wendy’s has people in Mayfield, Kentucky, questioning what exactly was happening behind the counter. The Facebook post has continued to pick up attention as more photos, a video, and allegations from people familiar with the restaurant have surfaced.
A Facebook user named Shadow Fleming originally shared a photo showing a woman bent over a sink with her hair beneath the faucet. Fleming first accused the woman of washing her hair inside the restaurant, then later updated the post to claim she had actually been dyeing it. Fleming also alleged that the woman worked as a manager at the location.
“Mayfield Wendy’s y’all nasty!!” Fleming wrote, adding that a manager “should KNOW BETTER.”
Nathan Toon, a commenter who joined the discussion under Fleming’s post, later uploaded a video that appears to show the same woman rinsing her hair under running water. Toon identified the fixture as a prep sink and said the nearby office area helped confirm the video’s location.
Some commenters suggested the woman may have gotten grease, cleaning chemicals, or another substance in her hair and needed to rinse it out immediately. Fleming disputed that explanation in her update and maintained that the woman had been dyeing her hair.
Facebook users are trying to figure out what happened inside the Wendy’s
The footage appears to show the woman rinsing her hair in a sink inside the restaurant, but it does not explain what led up to that moment. The video does not show whether she had dye or another product in her hair, or whether employees later used anything around the sink for food preparation.
Wendy’s says its restaurants follow company standards for food safety, sanitation, and quality control. Its public materials do not specifically address an employee rinsing their hair in a restaurant sink, but Kentucky restaurants also operate under the state’s adoption of the 2013 FDA Food Code.
Those rules require employees to keep their hair from coming into contact with exposed food, clean equipment, and utensils. They also bar employees from using designated handwashing sinks for anything other than handwashing.
Toon said the sink shown in the video was a prep sink, not a handwashing sink. No independent source has confirmed Toon’s claim, and the footage does not reveal how employees normally used the sink or whether anyone actually broke food safety rules.
Fleming later shared screenshots from what appears to be a Snapchat conversation about the incident. The screenshots show the names covered, leaving it unclear who was speaking or whether either person had witnessed what happened.
One person in the exchange claimed the incident took two days earlier and said the woman was dyeing her hair. The same conversation described her as a manager rather than the restaurant’s general manager, though neither claim has been independently verified.
The Mary Sue did reach out to Fleming for details about who recorded the footage, how she learned hair dye was allegedly involved, and whether she could confirm the woman’s role at the restaurant.
A separate post is putting even more attention on the Mayfield Wendy’s
As Fleming’s post spread, another Facebook user shared a separate photo that she explicitly linked to the same restaurant. “Somebody guess what this is from Mayfields Wendy’s,” Zo Sherrill wrote alongside an image of an unidentified substance.
Several commenters said it looked like old Frosty mix left inside a machine, and screenshots of Sherrill’s post soon began appearing under Fleming’s. Users then started asking whether the two posts pointed to a larger cleanliness problem at the location.
Sherrill identified the photo as coming from the Mayfield Wendy’s, but no independent source has confirmed what the substance was or when someone took the image.
The restaurant falls under the Graves County Health Department, which oversees local food safety inspections. So far, the department has not publicly tied either post to an inspection or violation.
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