Finger Food
It's Fraud Friday and the day before Halloween, so Maggie brings Joel a true horror story: a woman at a San Jose Wendy's says she bit into something crunchy in her chili, and it was part of a human finger. Joel, who has sworn off chili, follows the hunt for the finger's owner, which somehow involves a pet leopard, an asphalt company, and a hundred-dollar deal. Plus: why a food scare can wreck a restaurant's sales without ever triggering its insurance.
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