{"id":234862,"date":"2026-03-24T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234862\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:37:10","slug":"sf-burger-joint-responds-to-viral-image-of-raw-beef-left-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234862\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Burger Joint Responds To Viral Image Of Raw Beef Left Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 A viral photo of raw beef left outside on the floor of a San Francisco restaurant drew controversy over the weekend, prompting an explanation from the business. <\/p>\n<p>The photo of the raw beef and mayonnaise left outside Hamburger Project in San Francisco was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/1s0rd76\/raw_hamburger_left_in_the_sun_on_the_sidewalk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted on Reddit<\/a> on Sunday, amassing nearly 4,000 upvotes and 569 comments since. <\/p>\n<p>Commenters joked about the photo, with one person saying, &#8220;Our new premium burgers (are) $34.50 because we cook them with 100% solar energy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some people noticed the restaurant appeared to be closed and perceived it was a delivery error. But others questioned what the restaurant did to the meat. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok, this is really nasty,&#8221; another commenter said. &#8220;Likely the delivery drivers fault for just leaving it there, but pretty scary that the restaurant appears to have used the food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The delivery driver, according to Hamburger Project, said they didn&#8217;t have time to wait for someone to arrive and left the product on the floor. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When our team arrived at the restaurant and found the product outside, it was immediately discarded as it was obviously compromised,&#8221; Hamburger Project said in a statement. &#8220;We take food safety extremely seriously and have already updated our delivery procedures to ensure this does not happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 A viral photo of raw beef left outside on the floor of a San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-234862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}