Taco Bell Worker Threw Food At Woman Who Said Order Was Stale: PD

TINLEY PARK, IL — An argument over stale Taco Bell food turned into a battery charge when police said an employee at the national taco chain threw food at a customer through the drive-thru window Monday evening.

Tinley Park Police Chief Matt Walsh told Patch a woman from North Carolina plans to press charges against a Taco Bell employee in connection to the Dec. 27 incident.

Police were called to the Taco Bell at 7224 West 191st Street Monday at around 6 p.m. There, officers said a woman with remnants of food in her hair told police an employee had thrown a bag of food at her face.

"She went through the drive-thru, had some food and apparently it was stale," Walsh said. "The employee was under the impression the food was not stale."

Walsh said the two got into a verbal fight which ended in food being thrown. According to the employee, the woman threw food in his direction first, but camera footage from the drive-thru doesn't clearly show the woman throwing food, only the employee.

Police said they couldn't determine from the footage if the woman threw something at the employee first.

If the North Carolina woman decides to drop charges, Walsh said the incident will be treated as a customer management dispute.