Florida McDonald's Shuts Down After Rat Infestation Caught On Video

NAPLES, FL — A Florida fast food restaurant is temporarily closed after video surfaced showing rats roaming its kitchen.

Keysha Vega told WBBH-TV that she posted the video to Instagram after she and her boyfriend found the rats at a McDonald’s in Naples just after midnight Tuesday.

The couple reportedly went to the restaurant to purchase ice cream, however, when no one took their order at the drive-thru, they pulled up to the window — and what they saw surprised them.

Rather than employees, they saw nearly a dozen rats, some of them big, exploring the kitchen.

“That was just the drive-thru, you know? So who knows how many are running around the rest of the restaurant," she told the TV station.

Following the posting of the video, McDonald's owner and operator Mike Adams told the station it remains committed to a clean, safe, working and dining experience. The restaurant is currently undergoing deep cleaning and sanitization before it reopens.

Worldwide, rats and mice spread over 35 diseases that can be spread to humans directly, through handling of rodents, through contact with rodent feces, urine, or saliva, or through rodent bites, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Diseases carried by rodents can also be spread to humans indirectly, through ticks, mites or fleas that have fed on an infected rodent, the CDC says.

According to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, this particular McDonald's was last inspected on March 11. Two violations were observed. The first violation was for a vacuum breaker missing at the restaurant's mop sink faucet. The second, which was corrected on site, was for paper towels or mechanical hand drying device missing at the handwash sink.

Overall, the restaurant has had a pretty clean track record.

To view the video of the rats roaming the McDonald's in Naples, click here.