Posted on 06/08/2016 8:32:35 AM PDT by SMGFan
A fresh food lawsuit has emerged in Massachusetts following an incident at Panera. Boston Magazine reports that back in January, a New England family placed an online order for a meal from the chain's location in Natick. They ordered a grilled cheese sandwich for their six-year-old daughter, noting that it was for a child with a peanut allergy. The parents claim that after taking a bite, the young girl suffered a reaction that sent her to the hospital, and they discovered a dollop of peanut butter inside the sandwich.
Luckily an epi pen saved the girl's life, but the family is suing Panera and a group of franchises for negligence. Her father called the Panera location the evening of the reaction and was told that the mistake occurred due to a "language" issue. We're all for trying strange food combinations, but a request for peanut butter on a grilled cheese sandwich would definitely make us do a double-take.
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When I was in college, my girlfriend’s mother was a very frail, at risk asthma sufferer, at constant risk of having a bad attack requiring an injection.
She had a bad attack, and her husband broke both of the pens frantically trying to inject her, and she died in his arms. Just awful.
But I agree 100%. If my life depended on it, I wouldn’t go to restaurants, period.
My view exactly. If I weren’t prepared to do that, I wouldn’t take the child to a public place to eat, and wouldn’t let the child do so either until he or she was of age to safely manage their own affairs.
I figured as much, but the incompetent employee will face only the loss of a minimum wage job which can easily be replaced.
I work with lower skilled minimum wage workers (food service)and not one of them would make such an idiotic mistake. They’ve made food for customers with food allergies and take extreme care. They all grumble about it and rant about how the customer should eat at home, but are highly aware and careful. It takes an absolute incompetent moron to make this mistake.
Honestly if I had a kid with that bad of an allergy we would simply never eat out. Why risk it? It’s a deadly reaction, not an irritating one.
Who orders a grilled cheese sandwich “hold the peanut butter” anyway?
It’s like asking for a double cheeseburger at McD’s and saying “hold the pate’ “!
Does Panera regularly put peanut butter on a grilled cheese?
“When the person reading the order thinks that no peanut butter means add peanut butter.”
I ordered a pizza once and asked for extra tomato sauce, which got abbreviated as ‘XTS’. I got a pizza with no tomato sauce.
Article says "ONLINE ORDER". So it would be a matter of reading, not hearing. FWIW.
Then I’m puzzled, unless they’re using H2 visa imports from somewhere else.
“So, does your grilled cheese have peanut butter on it?”
“No, but we can add some for another 50 cents.”
“Oh - no thanks.”
(Hey Frank - the little kid likes peanut butter on his grilled cheese, but his old man is too cheap for the 50 cents. Just put it on for free - okay?)
Or - it could have been a foreign worker. Years ago I asked for a receipt at a McDonalds. I had been getting lunch there for a few days on a job and got one previously.
“Big Mac, large fries and a coke. And I’d like a receipt please. The foreign kid says “No receipt”. I asked again - “No receipt.” I told him I had gotten one just yesterday. He turns around and looks up at the menu board! Turns around and says “No receipt!” (The manager got an earful.)
The worker that messed up was most likely from Brazil - Portuguese as first or only language.
‘sem manteiga de amendoim’
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Many things are amiss with her story.
RE: Why so many food allergies?
The very common “baby” books mothers get (usually free from OB/GYN) insist that babies are not allowed to try strawberries, peanut butter, or eggs until they are close to two years old because they may be allergic. Many parents follow this rule explicitly (I have four kids and many times friends fussed at me for allowing my young ones to try these foods) and they develop a sensitivity to them which often turns to a severe allergy. I had an idea this was the case, but recently read a study which discussed it. Moms who smoked when pregnant had no compunction feeding their babies mashed strawberries or peanut butter once they could chew bread. Once people became helicopter parents, they monitored what our babies ate and made sure they kept away from unsafe stuff. Voila!
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