Taco toss puts Fairbanks man in jail
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Warren E. Strickland, 31, of Fairbanks, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Tuesday for throwing a double-decker taco at a manager of the Taco Bell restaurant on University Avenue.
Strickland said he was upset during the Jan. 14 incident because a taco contained spit after he had been through the drive-thru twice to correct his order.
According to a criminal complaint filed in court, he went into the restaurant and threw the taco at manager Carol Dzimtrowicz, who said it hit her in the face and that she was scared of Strickland. Another employee reported that Strickland threatened to knock him out.
Strickland was arrested at his home driveway, where he admitted throwing the taco, according to the complaint.
Dzimtrowicz said she could not comment. She deferred questions to the ownership company of Alaska Taco Bell Franchises, Denali Foods, which did not return a voice mail.
Strickland said he returned to the drive-thru lane because he had paid for three tacos and received two and that he returned because the new taco wasn’t what he’d ordered.
Then, he said, he found spit in the second newly made taco and went inside to tell a manager.
He claimed Dzimtrowicz accused him of lying and trying to get free food. That’s when he threw the taco that allegedly had been spat upon.
“Unfortunately, I destroyed the evidence (of the spit), or I could have gotten the place shut down,” he said Wednesday.
He feels the criminal complaint misrepresented the incident in ways, such as comparing his dimensions (6 feet 2 inches tall, 250 pounds) to Dzimtrowicz, who is roughly half his size, and making no mention of the spit.
Strickland is barred from any Taco Bell during his year of probation.
He asked during his arraignment Tuesday to be allowed at the College Road Taco Bell, where he said he was treated well after calling a consumer complaint number. He will need a written agreement from the owner to be allowed there.
Contact staff writer Joshua Armstrong at
459-7523.
Grow, kill, and make your own food.
I could even tell you up here I have seen some codes being broken in the restaurants I worked in. I can also tell you that we always had warning a good day to 4 hours before an inspection where we would only clean up for the inspection before it would go back to normal.
I'm just saying its not only fast food chains that are shady service sometimes it the smiling waitresses at the sit down restaurants that you need to watch out for.
Oh and I'm going to point out that I no longer work as a cook up here so I admit these places may have changed but with the fact that cooks up here are just moved around from one restaurant to another... yeah its just one problem being moved from one place to another so yeah.
These clowns must be stopped! Convict these criminals who spits in people's food!
The food was excellent. It was served on plates too hot to touch without a knapkin (oh yeah, the food was hot too). The service was incomparable (they checked back with me 3 or 4 times to see how we were doing). We sat on clean seats in a cozy booth with a clean table (and no food scraps on the floor). The restrooms are spotless.
I will not go back to Taco Bell anytime soon; there's no need to take my chances with cold food, missing portions of my order, rude management (much less disgusting things like 'spit' on my food).
Those of you who want to continue going there, be my guest! I've found some place better!
wow do you have a temper. When you get mad at you wife do you hit her? Mr.Strickland , I'm sure some day you will be back in jail for domestic violence. I hope you do not kill you children over C- on a report card.
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JUST ONE THING: Employees may not comment, they have to refer you to the main office. That is any corporate rule for any fast food chain. I would be fired no matter how much brown nosing I do. I worked fast food to put myself through college, and believe me, they do work hard a lot of them. There are just a few idiots that mess it up for everyone, just like every workplace.
Please don't throw anything at any fellow human. Just approach it with a smile and compasion and see how far that gets you! Jail harsh, but hot ground beef to the face burns. Just a thought.
Just my own personal opinion. She isn't my boss or anything not sure how that was deduced lol! That is some super brown nosing. I am my own boss. I am a personal trainer, can not work around fast food, TOO TEMPTING, especially taco bell -YUM! I just hate seeing people judged by people not in their shoes. Try compasion first. It gets me a lot farther than anger ever did.
I also was just saying he would have kept the taco if there was really spit in it. Not that the police would have done anything. I also HATE rude customer service, but I do realize that fast food is very stressful, and it would help us to have more compasion for the employees. I HATE rude anywhere it comes from. I always smile and that seems to work as an employee and customer. Try it! Even if you are super mad, compasion and smiling while I complain has always gotten me free food. Being rude got me rude right back.