Chinese man bought 2,000 family buckets from KFC to protest at unhygienic handling of food

Wealthy businessman Yang Lin fought dirty when a KFC branch ignored his complaint about hygiene while on business trip from Beijing to Wuhan. Angry Yang spent 140,000 yuan, (£14,000), buying 2,000 family buckets at the branch in central China after staff did nothing when he complained about a chef preparing food without gloves or face mask.

He then began lining them up outside the shop entrance with signs warning people not to eat them because they were a health risk. But the store refused to give him any more food to him after 22 buckets. He said he has been to many KFC's in other countries and found them to be very strict in sanitation standards.

"I wanted to buy all their food so they couldn't poison anyone else and I wanted to warn people what sort of food they were eating," said 30-year-old Yang. "I'm lucky to have made money in business so I can afford this protest. At first KFC wanted my money, but soon they were begging me to take it back," he added.

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Yang only agreed to end the bucket blockade after KFC managers in Wuhan, Hubei province, publicly apologized for their behavior and agreed to improve staff hygiene. "If they'd done that at the start they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble," said Yang.