Kentucky Fried Chicken trio photographed turning sink into hot tub

BY NANCY DILLON
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF

They serve fast food, but they're slow learners.

Four months after a Burger King employee lost his job for taking a bubble bath in a restaurant sink, three scantily clad teens turned a basin at their northern California KFC into their own personal hot tub.

They landed in hot water with the chicken chain's management when one of the bikini-clad girls made the same mistake as the Ohio Burger King employee - she posted photos of the dippy escapade on MySpace.

The photos included captions such as "haha KFC showers!" and "haha we turned on the jets," and were filed under a gallery called "KFC moments," according to the Record Searchlight, the Redding, Calif., newspaper that broke the story before the unidentified girl could scrub public access to her profile.

On her MySpace page, the girl listed herself as a 17-year-old worker at the Anderson KFC near Redding.

"I'm a KFC worker, they are my best friends and my family," she said on her site.

All three girls were suspended Tuesday, an assistant manager told the Record Searchlight. She said no manager was on duty when the steamy photos were likely taken because the trio closed the restaurant themselves.

A corporate spokeswoman in Louisville, Kentucky, said the parent company has "already started action," but she declined to elaborate.

Burger King bagged 25-year-old Timothy Tackett in August after a four-minute video of his birthday bath in the sink of a Xenia, Ohio, restaurant landed on MySpace and YouTube.

Tackett appeared to be naked in the sink.

Burger King promised to work with the health department to retrain staffers in proper sanitation procedures.