Chapter 31 Reactions from all sides
Although Director Zhao has a thousand knots in his heart, McDonald's must go on this trip.
Led by Director Zhao's heavy and staggering steps, the crowd watching the excitement behind him followed closely behind Director Zhao with brisk and dexterous steps. Today, let them have a big bag of eyes, the Kentucky chicken advertisement is so popular, it turns out that there are carcinogens in their frying oil.
Since there are carcinogens in Kentucky chicken frying oil, is there any carcinogen in McDonald's frying oil? -- this is the question of all onlookers.
Boss Wang, the owner of the McDonald's Chu City franchise store, is the same as the horse boss of Kender Chicken, and his face is green when he sees Director Zhao coming in with everyone. At first, Director Zhao was not allowed to check, but he couldn't stand the coaxing of the crowd at the scene, so Zuihou had to let Director Zhao check.
But it turned out that like Kende chicken, the frying oil also contained "arsenic", a carcinogen, which caused an uproar among the onlookers again. It is absolutely ironic that they have muttered that foreign fast food restaurants contain carcinogens, but the "earthy" fast food restaurants of the hometown brand have not detected any carcinogens.
Director Zhao returned to the bureau with an embarrassed face to report to the city leaders. Carcinogens are found in the frying oil, and according to the relevant national regulations, they will be fined 60,000-300,000 yuan, and will be ordered to re-pick after rectification. But after all, McDonald's and KFC are Fortune 500 companies in the world, and they also have nearly 1,000 chain stores in China, and how to deal with them is by no means up to him, the director of the health bureau of a small prefecture-level city.
In addition, the detection of carcinogens in the frying oil is directly related to the use of oil filter powder in two fast food restaurants, which Director Zhao cannot judge and decide.
Regarding the news brought back by Director Zhao, the senior leaders of Chu City immediately held an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with the "fried throttle" incident. Although this incident only involved 2 fast food restaurants and more than 50 employees, there was no poisoning and other incidents, which is not a big collective incident. But the names of these two fast-food restaurants have caused headaches for all city leaders, "McDonald's" and "Kentuck", the world's top 500 companies, with thousands of chain stores in China and tens of thousands of employees
This series of figures gave the city leaders a headache.
Is there a single incident or a group incident, and is there carcinogens in McDonald's and KFC chicken frying oil across the country? Is it because of the filter powder that contains carcinogens in the frying oil?
The more the leaders think about it, the more headaches they have, especially now is the era of economic leadership, everything is based on economic development, and at this time, this kind of thing is poked out by this small prefecture-level city, which is absolutely not conducive to the national policy of attracting investment. If you are afraid of foreign investors because of this incident, then these people will not have good fruits to eat.
Zuihou discussed and discussed, and the leading group of Chu City unanimously decided to report the matter to the provincial leaders, who would decide what to do. What the leaders say, what they do.
"Report to the leaders, do you want to inform the people to eat less McDonald's and Kentucky chicken in the near future?" Director Zhao is the director of health after all, and he knows how serious the impact on the human body will be if it contains carcinogens. Although there will be no lesions in the short term, long-term consumption of these foods containing carcinogens will definitely cause incurable hidden dangers to the human body, and even affect the next generation.
But as soon as Director Zhao's words came out, he aroused the angry eyes of all the leaders attending the meeting. Originally, everyone was in a good mood recently, although there was a "tax gate" incident, but on the whole, the benefits to Chu City still outweighed the disadvantages. But now this "fried throttle" incident is definitely a disaster.
Director Zhao looked at the angry eyes of the leaders, and knew that he had provoked the anger of the people this time. -- But am I willing, I'm not the leader yet, I'm a little person to do things-- Director Zhao shrugged his head like a wronged little daughter-in-law, and sat there and didn't dare to look at the leaders.
"Cough!" Mayor Yu Haowei coughed lightly, Director Zhao's proposal is also an issue related to people's livelihood, and it cannot be ignored, but at this juncture that affects the whole body, Mayor Yu Haowei, who puts the interests of the people first, can only compromise.
Stability is greater than everything, and in a harmonious society, everything must be based on stability.
"Don't report on this just yet. By the way, Minister Li, you are the head of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and you must suspend the reporting of this matter by the media in Chu City before the higher-level leaders give instructions. Mayor Yu Haowei can only temporarily adopt a hush policy.
"Yes, Mayor Yu. Minister Li nodded again and again.
But it has entered the 21st century and entered the Internet era, can it be sealed?
"Alright, adjournment. During this time, the main person in charge of all departments must ensure that the mobile phone is on standby 24 hours a day, and it is on call at any time. Mayor Yu Haowei announced the adjournment of the meeting with a headache.
"Mayor Yu, uh, Vice Mayor Hu" Director Zhao saw that everyone was ignoring him, and his whole old face was crowded together, so he almost didn't cry. What does this mean, it means that his political career is coming to an end.
I'm really wronged~~~. -- Director Zhao shouted at the sky.
When the leaders of Chu City held an emergency meeting, Boss Ma of the Chu City franchise store of KFC and Boss Wang of the McDonald's Chu City franchise store learned that the fast food restaurant they joined was found to contain "arsenic", a carcinogen, and they were frightened, and they also quickly reported the matter to the headquarters of KFC and McDonald's in China. For the CEOs of two fast-food restaurants in China, this is also the first time that Yujian, and there is no precedent.
The CEOs of the two Chinese companies in Zuihou had no choice but to report the matter to the U.S. headquarters, which ruled on the matter. After learning of the incident, the CEOs of the two companies immediately canceled their vacations and rushed back to the company.
Now the Chinese market is the top priority of McDonald's and KFC's global strategy, in other continents of the world some franchise stores began to show slight losses, only the Chinese market is as prosperous as ever, and the merchants who apply to join are endless, McDonald's has set the franchise fee at about 2.5 million, but it still can't stop the enthusiasm of McDonald's merchants who want to join McDonald's.
If it breaks out that the frying oil contains carcinogens at this time, it will definitely be a fatal blow to the entire reputation. At present, the CEOs of the two companies secretly held a video conference, the content of which was unknown to outsiders, only the two CEOs who participated in the meeting knew.
Three hours later, the two companies hired a third-party testing agency to secretly sneak into China to re-inspect the two fast-food restaurants in Chu City, where the accident occurred, and then then picked up franchisees in other cities in China. Assess whether the carcinogen in the frying oil was an incidental single event or a mass event.
Of course, for Lin Feng's fast food restaurant, the initiator of the "fried throttle" incident, the presidents of the two companies did not forget to let the third-party testing agency quietly test it. They absolutely don't believe that the frying oil used by the fast-food chain, which has only five branches, will have no problems.
In particular, the "acrylamide" contained in the frying oil (which has been confirmed to be carcinogenic by animal experiments) is unavoidable in the food industry, unless the frying oil is changed every six hours in full accordance with the food law. However, this cost is by no means affordable for any food and beverage industry.