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 #1 
Old 2008-08-13, 22:40
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where is my mind?
Default can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

and were found out? just had this question come up in the circle so lets hear it.
(i looked on google but its all articles from people saying "waiters can and will spit in your food" and "no tip? enjoy the spit" etc etc.
i said it would be unlikely they could be sued, probably get the person who spit in it fired but not much else.
prove me wrong.
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Old 2008-08-13, 22:41
0x29A 0x29A is offline
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

Yes, and its also a felony.
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Old 2008-08-13, 22:41
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

rat poison>spit
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Old 2008-08-13, 22:42
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

It depends, if it's like one time one employee type thing then no. But awhile back there was a chain where like all the employees would constantly spit in food and put cockroaches in the drinks and shit. In that case it was a public health issue and shit got real.
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Old 2008-08-13, 22:42
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where is my mind?
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Originally Posted by 0x29A
Yes, and its also a felony.


can you link to your source?
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Old 2008-08-13, 22:42
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

Yes, it can.
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Old 2008-08-13, 22:45
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where is my mind?
Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

link?
im looking for proof not word of mouth
 #8 
Old 2008-08-13, 22:50
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

Moving to right forum.
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Old 2008-08-14, 03:25
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

It seems like there's probably some sort of health safety law that applies, but as far as proving it goes...? Ugh.
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Old 2008-08-14, 03:29
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

can you link to your source?

Its federal law, tampering with the contents of someone's food or drink without their consent is a felony (a very serious one). Im too lazy to find the exact statute but trust me on it.
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Old 2008-08-14, 03:53
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Michigan
Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

Regarding that source:

Try googling "tampering with food law", then go to link #4 (Product Tampering). It's a document on what the FDA does with food tampering cases. It is indeed a federal crime, but the possibility of them not investigating it at all is there as well as the fact that it's a prosecutable offense to lie about food tampering.
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Old 2008-08-15, 15:28
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

Moving on to the next step in the thread, how can we prove the food contains spit?

Im not tryign to shoot you down, I want a real way to prove this shit.
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Old 2008-08-15, 16:18
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Default Re: can a restaurant get sued if they spit in the customers food

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Originally Posted by Jaguarstrike
Moving on to the next step in the thread, how can we prove the food contains spit?

Im not tryign to shoot you down, I want a real way to prove this shit.


With some of the shit restaurants like McDonald's and other places like it produce, I'm not sure I could tell. As far as proving it goes, you have to have someone with lab skills positively identify it as spit, and not only that, but match it to one of the employees at the restaurant.

I'm not completely sure of the latter, since I think that food is prepared on-site, meaning any tampering would have had to be done there.
 
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