Posted on 09/18/2006 5:34:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Restaurant Sues Spinach Grower For $40
(CBS) GLENVIEW A Chicago attorney filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of restaurants damaged by contaminated spinach.
CBS 2 North Suburban Bureau Chief Katie McCall reports a Glenview restaurant wants cash for the spinach that went in the trash.
Hamilton's Restaurant says the grower, Natural Selection Foods should have to pay every restaurant back for the spinach they purchased but could not serve.
Customers have been coming to Hamilton's Restaurant in Glenview for over three decades, and while the name of this laid-back neighborhood eatery has changed, they say the food has not.
“The food is consistent. Every time I've had something, it was always good,” said customer Lolita Sayadian.
But for now, some of the most popular items are not available because of the nationwide fresh spinach scare.
“I will say I am disappointed. Spinach is my favorite vegetable,” said customer Jenice Bayer.
“The best thing they have here is spinach pie,” said customer Trudy Miller.
Owner George Grekousis had to throw out five cases of bagged spinach on Friday. Now he's suing the spinach grower, who he says acted irresponsibly.
“Send a message that somewhere along the line somebody did something wrong,” Grekousis said.
Grekousis lost just $40 worth of spinach but he says it's not about the money.
“We want to ensure that it will not happen again, either in spinach or any other products,” Grekousis said.
His attorney believes other restaurants will join the suit to hold the grower accountable.
“I've heard from any number of restaurants who had to throw out their spinach because they didn't want to run the chance of harming any of their customers,” said attorney Tom Zimmerman.
Natural Selection Foods was not available for comment.
Why don't the owners eat the spinach themselves or better yet serve it to the shysters they are hiring?
If I go to hell, I'm sure that restaurant will be the only one down there.
More frivolous nonsense.
Why don't the reataurants grow their own spinach.
Oh for pity sakes.
It can and it will unless you want to eat only foods that have been cooked to death. That is the only way to have perfectly safe food. It must be processed to with in an inch of it's life.
The closer to "natural" it is the greater the risk.
People in the food processing industry invest great amounts of capital and time to make sure their product is safe. Sometimes they will fail. That is the nature of all things. Some times they fail.
Because of the amount of time and effort that goes into making food safe it happens less in the US then anywhere else but it does happen. So give thinks that you live in a place where such things are caught before thousands of people are dead and quit whining about your $40.
Now who is surprised at that?
It was only a matter of time.
If the best thing they have is spinach pie, maybe it's time to look for another restaurant.
"Fresh maggots with anthrax sauce"?
So, did the FDA *ever* get around to actually testing the spinach to find out if it was, indeed, the culprit? ;)
Somebody needs to go burn the attorney out.
Hasn't he heard or 'acts of God?'?
Shakespeare had it right...we need to kill every tenth attorney.
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