A man who visited a Popeyes restaurant in Texas earlier this month was horrified to see a boy who appeared to be 'about eight or nine-years-old' working in the kitchen.

'The child was handling raw chicken before giving it to a male staff worker who went on to cook it,' said the customer, who captured the bizarre situation on his phone, at a branch of the chain restaurant in The Colony, TX on November 3.

'He was wearing an apron,' the source told DailyMailTV, who asked to remain anonymous.

The onlooker claimed that the restaurant was 'very short staffed' with a line out of the door, and a wait time of at least one hour for chicken.

A Popeyes customer snapped photos of a young boy working in the kitchen at the location in The Colony, Texas, on November 3

The boy appeared to be 'about eight or nine-years-old', wearing an apron and handling raw chicken at this Texas location, a source tells DailyMailTV

He said: 'While I was there, there was only one person working the front counter and four employees in the kitchen.

'The line was out of the door and even the drive-thru was packed.I waited for over an hour for my order.

'The boy kept moving back-and-forth from the kitchen to another area out of view.

'It was so crazy, it needed to be caught on camera.'

The customer claimed that one worker left bags of orders at the counter without distributing them because she had to rush into the kitchen to help prepare the food.

A Popeyes spokesperson tells DailyMailTV: 'We took swift action to explore this claim with the franchisee. The restaurant owner has terminated the employee who brought their child, a minor, into the kitchen and will fully cooperate with any additional investigations in compliance with state and federal laws.

'The safety of our guests and team is always a priority for us and we take any actions that are outside of our brand and operational standards very seriously.'

Popeyes announced that their infamous chicken sandwich was fully restocked at the beginning of November after the fast-food chain ran out of the sandwich two months ago

The source said: 'At one point she actually yelled at an older man who had accidentally taken the wrong bag.

'It was so insane. I was a waiter for a number of years and I've never seen anything like that,' he added.

Popeyes has hit the headlines recently after numerous fights have broken out over their insanely popular chicken sandwich.

Earlier this month a man was fatally stabbed after cutting the line at a Popeyes in Maryland.

On Monday, a New York man claimed to have found marijuana in his chicken sandwich and last week, a Popeyes employee was filmed body slamming a 55-year-old woman outside a restaurant in Tennessee, leaving her with multiple injuries, including six broken ribs.