Golden Corral cook Brandon Huber actually likes his job at the national buffet chain's Port Orange, Florida, location. 
 
 That's why he tried going directly to Golden Corral management first before reaching out to the media about his restaurant's ironic efforts to avoid receiving poor health inspection marks. 
 
 But after being turned down by a number of news outlets, Huber decided to speak directly to the Internet about his branch's practice of storing both raw and cooked foods near the dumpster ahead of the health inspector's visit. 
 
 "I'm an employee, I've been working here for a long time, and I don't think this is right," Huber informed his viewers in the fast-rising video. 
 
 The young man is being compared to whistleblower Edward Snowden, albeit with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but the blowback Golden Corral is likely to receive from this bad practice is no joke. 
 
 UPDATE: Golden Corral has just responded to Huber's claims in the video's comments section (thanks Lamont!): 
 
 UPDATE 2: Huber filmed a follow-up video briefly discussing why he chose to bring this practice to light. 
 
 In an official statement sent to Gawker, Golden Corral reiterated its claim that the food was destroyed without being served to customers, and that Huber personally participated in the food's disposal. 
 
 They further allege that Huber's dad tried to sell the video to the company for $5,000 — an offer that was rejected. 
 
 As for ramifications, Metro Corral Partners says the manager was terminated "for failing to follow approved food handling procedures." No word yet on Huber's current employment status. ||||| The restaurant chain Golden Corral was a hot topic on Reddit Monday morning as images surfaced of purported disgusting kitchen conditions and a video by an alleged employee charged that the chain keeps its meat by the dumpster. 
 
 A Reddit user named GCWhistleblower posted four pictures of a kitchen overflowing with garbage near food that is spilling out of boxes. The caption: "Just an average day for a Golden Corral Employee, best working conditions ever!" 
 
 SEE ALSO: Taco Bell Employee Who Licked Taco Shells Is Getting Fired 
 
 That, coupled with the video above, has prompted a subReddit devoted to the chain. 
 
 A rep from the chain offered the following statement: 
 
 A video was recently posted showing an incident of improper food handling at our Port Orange, Fla., location. None of these items were served to a single customer. All were destroyed within the hour at the direction of management. Brandon Huber, the employee who made the video, participated in the disposal of the food. 
 
 
 
 The following day, the father of the employee, posted an offer to sell the video for $5,000, which was not accepted. 
 
 
 
 The manager involved in the improper storage was terminated for failing to follow approved food handling procedures. 
 
 Huber could not be reached for comment. 
 
 The barrage comes after images of a Taco Bell employee licking some taco shells emerged on Facebook last month. In general, restaurant chains appear uniquely vulnerable to such charges. The first such example of this phenomenon appears to be a Domino's Pizza YouTube scandal in 2009 that showed a couple of rogue employees doing disgusting things to pizzas intended for customers. Such incidences illustrate how images and videos on social media can undo millions of dollars in advertising. 
 
 Image courtesy of Flickr, Rob_rob2001 ||||| Most of us turn a blind eye to the preparation methods or sanitary conditions at our favorite fast food restaurants. In the back of our minds, we occasionally question whether something sketchy is going on in the kitchen, but we'd rather enjoy our food in blissful ignorance. 
 
 Let's ruin that right now. 
 
 READ: 8 Fast Food Fiascos That Grossed Out the Nation 
 
 Last Thursday, a Reddit user by the name of ohisthename posed the following question to any fast food workers within the Reddit community: "What should we NOT order at your restaurant? Why not?" 
 
 The responses were plentiful, with thousands of users chiming in. And their answers were intriguing, informative, and in many cases, downright gross. 
 
 Here are some of the more insightful things they had to say: 
 
 #1. Avoid Lemons and Ice at All Costs 
 
 From Reddit user hardshell1919: "I've worked at 4 restaurants in my life and lemons and ice are by far the most disgusting things you can get." 
 
 From Reddit user littlebosheep: "Even with regular cleaning ice machines are disgusting." 
 
 READ: 10 Things You Didn't Know About McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Other Fast Food Restaurants 
 
 From Reddit user velleux: "But really though, those lemons have been sitting out all day. Stop ordering them." 
 
 #2. Don't Order the Chili 
 
 From Reddit user doopercrooper: "Don't eat the chili at fast food places. It's usually the old meat chopped up into pieces and thrown into a chili." 
 
 #3. Steer Clear of the Hot Food at a Movie Theater 
 
 From Reddit user lizardmon: "I worked at a movie theater for a year. Never buy anything that came out of a warmer. Unless you are there at 7 p.m. on a Friday or Saturday night chances are it was made between 2 and 4 hours ago." 
 
 #4. … And Sometimes the Popcorn, Too 
 
 From Reddit user 318daily: "I used to work at a movie theater. Don't get popcorn if you're watching the first showing of the day. At night we would make popcorn and bag it up which is what we would serve in the morning the following day." 
 
 WATCH: The Unbelievably Gross Thing a Pizza Hut Employee Did 
 
 From Reddit user juandurfel: "Be careful if you order popcorn for the first show time of the day at your theater. Some [theaters] take the popcorn left over in the popper from the night before and store it in a trashbag in the break room. They then dump the popcorn back into the popper the next day and sell it first." 
 
 #5: Inspect Your Sandwich Meats 
 
 From Reddit user hey-you-pikachu: "The roast beef is so full of preservatives its iridescent (super shiny and rainbow). The cold cuts are in a nasty syrup that smells like [expletive deleted], and the black forest ham has little piggy hairs on them if you look close enough." 
 
 From Reddit user ChipCrumbMassacre: "I work at a local sub-place … Do not order ham or turkey subs. When we microwave the ham, it sparks, and sometimes when we cut the turkey with the slicer, you can hear a little clink because there was something solid that was cut through." 
 
 #6. You Shouldn't Be Ordering a Taco Pizza 
 
 From Reddit user grdctrl2mjrtom: "Don't order the taco pizza then. Never in my 3 years of off and on working at 3 different [pizza chain locations] have I seen anyone use gloves to put the lettuce, tomatoes, or cheddar cheese on one of those suckers." 
 
 READ: The Top 10 Pizza Cities In The U.S. 
 
 #7. Your Fish Sandwich Might Be Iffy 
 
 From Reddit user Recede: "We had to make them at 11 when lunch started and had the same ones in the tray until the elderly people came to get their supper at 3 P.M. ... Never order them." 
 
 From Reddit user phillipssyndrome: "I would never trust ANYONE cooking ANY fish." 
 
 #8. Stop Ordering From the Non-Existent 'Secret Menu' 
 
 From Reddit user bwat4ou: "Current Starbucks employee here. To expand on this, one person's "secret menu recipe" for a drink they got off Pinterest or some crap site might vary from another persons recipe from the same 'drink' from some stupid other website.... So we never really 'know' the exact recipes..." 
 
 From Reddit user Ssutuanjoe: "Every redditor who works at Chipotle has the same consensus; Don't order the quesorito. I've never ordered it and it never seemed appealing to me to begin with, but apparently when customers order them, every employee in the restaurant hates you." 
 
 #9: There's a Reason They're Called Dirty-Water Hot Dogs 
 
 From Reddit user FreakyCheeseMan: "Do not. Buy. The Hot Dogs. They made it out of the package okay, and might even have been edible after we finished grilling them — and then they went into the water. We kept three pans of water at the back of the grill that held the hot dogs. Any hot dogs left at the end of the day went back into the fridge, and came out again the next day. Me and the other cook put our feet down on throwing out the water and old hotdogs after two full days, but the management didn't want to let us." 
 
 READ: Teach an Old Dog New Tricks With These 8 Wild Hot Dog Recipes 
 
 #10: Demand Decaf 
 
 From Reddit user fishkybuns: "Our coffee has to be made on certain times. It can't be too old. However not many people order decaf. So we don't make it too often during slower hours (our busy times are early and later morning. Afternoon, evening, and night is what I'm taking about) So if you order it drive thru, and there isn't any, you'll likely get regular." 
 
 READ: How Gross is Your Coffee Maker? 
 
 Despite the negative responses, several Reddit commenters, were quick to point out that not all of these franchise stores operate the same way, some even saying that their local locations are "spotless" and serve completely safe, fresh food. 
 
 Just hope you like near one of those the next time you're downing an icy drink with a lemon wedge.
– Food chains around the country must rue the day someone decided to add cameras to phones. Golden Corral is the latest to have its dirty ground beef aired online, as Reddit exploded this morning in reaction to a video from one employee showing all manner of meat camped out near the dumpster in what he alleged was an attempt to hide it from food inspectors, Mashable reports. "I've been working here for a long time, and I don't think this is right," says cook Brandon Huber, who shows his face and identifies himself on camera. Golden Corral later commented on the video, saying that the food was never served to customers, that it was thrown away immediately, and that the manager at the restaurant was terminated, Gawker reports. It also accuses Huber of trying to sell the video, and says he participated in disposing of the food.