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A Dunkin’ employee was filmed washing his feet at a kitchen sink at the chain’s location aboard a Staten Island Ferry — prompting a city Health Department investigation, The Post has learned.
An eyewitness spotted the employee lifting his tootsies and using sink water to wash his feet behind the counter and immediately began filming the stomach-churning scene, calling it “disgusting.”
The footage — posted to TikTok Aug. 11 before it quickly spread across other social media platforms — shows the worker standing in front of the sink on what appears to be an Islamic prayer rug as he suds up his feet.
The eyewitness wasn’t the only one who thought the guy had a donut-sized hole in his head.
“Would you like feet with your doughnut?” one disgusted commenter asked.
Another joked, “Is he on feet finder?”
And a third quipped, “Who needs a foot spa when you’ve got Dunkin’ Donut?”
The man appears to have been practicing wudu, the Islamic ritual of ablution performed before prayer.
It involves washing specific parts of the body — including the hands, face, arms and feet — in a prescribed sequence as an act of purification.
Muslims commonly perform wudu before the five daily prayers, known as salah, and it can also be performed before other religious activities, including handling or reading the Quran.
But the religious practice itself wasn’t the focus of the online outrage.
Rather, critics zeroed in on where the washing apparently took place: inside a commercial food-service operation and just inches from areas used to prepare food for customers.
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“Religion or not, washing your feet a few inches away from the food area is wild. There has to be a better way. Mamdani, find this man a better religious accommodation,” one commenter wrote.
The Health Department told The Post in a statement, “The NYC Health Department promotes the safety of food served in the city’s restaurants so New Yorkers and visitors can dine without fear of becoming ill. Restaurants are required to follow food safety requirements,” while NYC DOT said it “is reviewing and will take appropriate action.”
Dunkin’ has not responded to The Post’s inquiries.
