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.
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"Ebenezer Scrooge
They just wanted to make sure that if there was video, maybe it would be gone by now.
it sounds like she has engaged the services of 1800/GetRichQuickQuackLLC
” 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.”
normal invitees in restaurants don’t stare down at the floor on their way to the rest room. at least, they don’t think it necessary to do so. Maintaining floor radar detection on high alert for Weaponized Mashed Potatoes is not within the ambit of ordinary care. even at the sleazy diner downtown, ha!
You con gold…
Good one😆
“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.” Maybe it was on her bucket list.
Plaintiffs often file just before the expiration of the statute of limitations (usually two years) just in case a camera or witness saw what happened.
LOL! One of those memorable lines.
Most people trip over those things.
I rather do the Monster Mash. It was a graveyard smash.
Come baby, do locomotion.😗
Two years makes it unlikely that lawsuit publicity will bring forth inconvenient witnesses ... to things like who threw the taters on the floor.
Good ol’ Loudon County.
In Sterling, no less.
Well, these slip and fall lawyers have gotta eat.
LOL! I love him! He cracks me up, never gets old!
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