Posted on 08/14/2015 6:39:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SIKESTON, Mo., - A diner filed a lawsuit Monday against a Missouri restaurant famous for its "throwed rolls" after a piece of bread hit her and caused an injury.
Troy Tucker sued Lambert's Cafe in Sikeston, Mo., after she said she was hit by a roll and "sustained a lacerated cornea with a vitreous detachment and all head, neck, eyes and vision were severely damaged" in September 2014, WDAF-TV, St. Louis, Mo., reported.
She is seeking $25,000 to pay for her medical bills and legal fees. The lawsuit said Lambert's Cafe should know about the dangers caused by throwing rolls.
Jerry Johnson, the general manager of the restaurant, told KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the employees never mean to injure anyone when they throw rolls. He said people have tried to sue the restaurant in the past, and in some cases, the company's insurance has paid the cost of medical bills.
It's unclear if Tucker has a case for her allegations of "carelessness and negligence" against Lambert's Cafe. There are multiple signs inside and and outside the restaurant calling it "Home of Throwed Rolls."
It’s those dam 24-oz T-bone steaks ya gotta watch out fer!
foreseeable.
The food is fantastic. Incredible. And it is because the food is so good that the roll throwing started.
The restaurant was incredibly popular and always crowded. The serving staff walks around with side dishes and it's all you can eat, including the rolls. In the 1970s, the owner brought hot rolls out from the kitchen on a tray, but was having problems getting to a regular who wanted a roll because of how crowded the place was.
The regular yelled "Just throw the damned thing!" which the owner did to the delight of the customers. From then on, people would just yell for the rolls to be thrown from the kitchen door and it soon became a tradition.
My grandparents were from a town near Sikeston and I ate there dozens of times as a kid. It is a fantastic place, the lines are still out the door, and they still throw hot rolls when you ask them to.
During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992. Some claims involved third-degree burns substantially similar to Liebecks. This history documented McDonalds' knowledge about the extent and nature of this hazard.In other words McDonald's KNEW their coffee was dangerously hot, and deliberately and maliciously ignored a long track record of injured customers.McDonalds also said during discovery that, based on a consultants advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit to maintain optimum taste. He admitted that he had not evaluated the safety ramifications at this temperature. Other establishments sell coffee at substantially lower temperatures, and coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
Further, McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat. The quality assurance manager admitted that burns would occur, but testified that McDonalds had no intention of reducing the "holding temperature" of its coffee.
They got off light.
The Brandywine Creek Steakhouse & Tavern in Newport, Tennessee advertises thrown rolls.
Their billboards on I-40 depict a “daughter of a moonshiner” catching a tossed roll.
FWIW, waiters were once nicknamed “biscuit shooters”.
But why did McDonald's serve their coffee so hot? Apparently, evidence was produced that, although McDonald's knew people were being burned by its coffee, it, nevertheless, served the coffee hot to save money. McDonald's saved money because internal studies showed that people drank their coffee as soon as it was purchased. Thus, customers eating in the store would not tend to ask for a free refill when coffee was so hot. Finally, it has been reported that McDonald's executives testified that they believed that it would be cheaper to pay injury claims and worker's compensation benefits to people burned by their coffee rather than making any of these changes.Here
Yes, they maliciously served coffee at a temperature their customers kept paying for. The original $2.7 million in punitive damages awarded were for roughly two-days' worth of coffee sales. Assuming a dollar a cup (which I know is high for that era), that's 2.7 Million cups sold in two days - or nearly 500 million cups/year. Over eleven years (yes, I know they grew their market in that time, and sold more coffee in later years - but to keep it simple) that works out to just around 5.42 billion cups sold. Probably more since coffee was less than a dollar a cup in those years.
700 complaints out of 5.42 billion cups sold is not even a statistic.
“They say that in the Army the biscuits are mighty fine...
one rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine...”
"More bread?"
Thanks. Shades of Ford Pinto. Those pesky cost/benefit analyses look real ugly when they show up in the courtroom.
Yup, like GM ignition switches...
I’ve been to the one in Gulf Shores Alabama.
It’s a fun place, kids love it.
Serious hog trough sized country portions.
Always a long wait in season.
Now some freakin ambulance chaser will make them force everybody to wear helmets and face shields.
Agree with your post 100%
But where’s the fun on FR without the circular firing squad?
Neither is a few hundred deaths due to faulty ignition switches, I mean, really, people still buy GM cars!
It’s all good.
How’s business at your franchise?
Ditto!
$25K? Is she crazy? No self-respecting ambulance chaser would take on this suit. First, the sum sought is not divisible by three. Then, there are way too few zeroes after the 25. Finally, that list of injuries is woefully short; no mention of a return to smoking, lack of sex, overeating, unsuccessful dieting, white privilege, just to name a few.
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