Posted on 06/09/2026 10:10:56 AM PDT by simpson96
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A woman filed a lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse, stating she had serious injuries after slipping on mashed potatoes.
The amount for which she is suing: $1.5 million.
Tracy J. Renshaw initially filed a civil lawsuit in Loudoun County Circuit Court in 2025. The company requested that the case be moved to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, in 2026.
According to the complaint Renshaw filed in Loudoun County, the incident, itself, was to have taken place on May 14, 2023 at the Outback Steakhouse in Sterling, Va. That restaurant location no longer is in operation.
Renshaw said she and her family were customers. She stood up from their table to go to the restroom. Renshaw said while she was on her way there, “she stepped on a slippery foreign substance, which appeared to be mashed potatoes.” Renshaw said she fell, face forward, onto the floor.
The complaint states the presence of the substance “created an unreasonably dangerous condition for visitors” and that nothing was posted to warn people. It describes the injuries Renshaw had as “serious and permanent.”
In its response to the complaint, Outback Steakhouse denies the majority of the allegations, including those related to the extent of Renshaw’s injuires. The company also states that it did not have “any duty to warn regarding any condition that was open and obvious to the Plaintiff exercising ordinary care.”
Outback Steakhouse noted that it neither can confirm nor deny some assertions because it does not have sufficient information.
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If the mashed potatoes don’t get you, the gravy will, the dangers of American foods.
Interpretation—— Some dumb idiot could not watch where she stepped and is now looking to fleece a company where she slipped and “fell” for an absurd amount of money due to the “political climate” now in VA...... did I get that right?
To be fair, her idiot attorney probably sat on it that long before filing. That’s not to say it has any merit.
The best for mashing..
You con gold.
More slip and fall lawyers in NoVa these days. Their ads cover the buses, didn’t used to be like that. Even if it’s Outback’s fault, $1.5M is excessive and they’re looking for a settlement, especially by getting the press involved.
In California, candidate Katie Porter set blazing hot mashed potatoes onto her hapless husband’s scalp. What if it were a public restaurant the dangerous potatoes slipped down onto the floor and a bystander fell from it?
RE: waited two years to file the money grabbing suit....
Maybe she was so weak and debilitated that she had to work up to energy to call the lawyer on the TV ad. Then slumped back in her La-Z-Boy recliner.
Dee Dee Sharp was way ahead of all this....
Mashed Potato Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51eJ3-h86JQ
LOL! I love that guy and with the money she wins, she too can buy a watch of her choice, but, she can’t have his tie!
Just another grifter looking for a big payday.
I can mash potato (I can mash potato)
And do the twist (I can do the twist)
Now tell me, baby (tell me, baby)
Do you like it like this? (do you like it like this?)
Contingency lawsuits are a scourge. Even the England has loser pays to prevent this kind of BS.
That spokesman is hilarious. He makes me laugh out loud.
So, was the gravy any good?
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