The Daily Dish: October 21, 2015
Welcome to The Daily Meal's Daily Dish, where we highlight what's hot and trending in the world of all things food and drink.
Today's first course?
Survery Finds That 51 Percent of Food Workers Report to Work When They Are Sick
With flu season upon us, more people call in sick. However, a new survey finds about 51 percent of food industry workers "always" or "frequently" work sick. Of 1,200 workers surveyed, 73 percent said they came to work when sick because of income, 48 percent said to support someone, and about 40 percent said they either needed to save money, were interested in the job, or went to work for a sense of self-worth.
Here's How Someone Might Steal Your WiFi Password From Your Tea Kettle
Do you feel the need to connect your tea kettle to your wifi? You might be putting your home at risk. A digital security expert in London was able to map the city's "insecure" iKettles and hack them to prove that homeowners' wifi passwords can be leaked. By hacking the iKettle, which uses a smartphone to boil water for tea, the expert used social engineering data, a directional antenna, and networking gear to learn wifi passwords of a number of homes.
Get $3 Burritos from Chipotle on Halloween by Dressing Up In Costume, but There's a Catch
Did you know you can get $3 Chipotle burritos on Halloween by dressing up? It's part of Chipotle's annual Boorito fundraiser, which raises money for the Cultivate Foundation to create a better food future. But this year, there's a twist. Harping on their image of being GMO-free, now you have to add something unnecessary to your costume to represent the Boorito slogan, "unnecessary ingredients in fast food are creepy." In exchange, Chipotle will donate $1 from your purchase to their foundation.
And that's today's Daily Dish. Thanks for watching. Stop by tomorrow for another helping.