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ParanoidObsessive posted...

There's also the issue of how blatantly staff disregards any responsibility. I know I've heard a story IRL about someone who had epi-pen level allergies to tomatoes, and went to a Chili's or Chipotle or some place like that (I forget the actual place now, I heard this story in passing like 10+ years ago), and ordered a beef bowl thing (basically, the kind of deal where you get taco meat in a bowl and dip tortilla chips into it). Since it normally comes with salsa/tomato, the people at the table who ordered it explicitly asked to have it without tomatoes, and straight up told the serving staff that the one guy had a severe allergic reaction to it and it could literally kill them if they didn't keep tomatoes away from it.

So when the food got to the table, it looked like there was no tomato, so the allergic person ate some. Then they figured out that it still had tomato, and that all the tomato was on the bottom under the meat, so you literally couldn't see it until it was too late. In that scenario, I'd sue the ever-living fuck out of the staff and the restaurant regardless of whether or not the person even had an allergic reaction. Because that's pretty much borderline criminal irresponsibility.

Precisely. While there are plenty of instances of people with allergies simply assuming that they'll be safe and not telling anyone about them, then getting mad at restaurants when they have a reaction, instances where the person does tell staff about the allergies, the restaurant needs to either accommodate the allergies or refuse service. Any other course of action is a reckless decision to endanger the person for which staff are absolutely culpable.