Massachusetts fast food worker pleads not guilty after being charged with Distributing Food with a Harmful Substance

A now former Massachusetts fast food worker faced a judge for the first time on Friday.

Court records show that 22-year-old Kaylie Santos, of Southbridge, was charged in Dudley District Court with Distributing Food with a Harmful Substance on April 9th.

At her arraignment on Friday, she pled not guilty and was released on personal recognizance with a pretrial hearing scheduled for July 31st.

In a video that went viral, a uniformed McDonald’s employee in Southbridge, allegedly Santos, was seen taking a handful of French fries, putting them in her mouth, and then allegedly taking them out and placing them into a large McDonald’s fry box.

Chief Shane Woodson had confirmed to Fall River Reporter that they would be filing charges via the summons process. 

According to Boston 25 News and court documents, Santos was also allegedly caught on camera spitting into the fry container in addition to placing the fries she had put in her mouth into the fry box, and then serving the tainted order through the drive-thru. The customer, a woman from Southbridge who had dated Santos, later ate the fries before learning the truth from the circulating video. Police reports indicate Santos had been harassing her ex and her new partner, and was overheard on the video saying, “When your girlfriend wants French fries today, right…” before the contaminated food was handed over.