Chili's serves Finger CONDOM to Toddler

im not looking for damages im going to shut them down . And will spend
money to do it. They had repeated Health Dept warnings about this
before it happened.
they will be in the Hampton Daily press tmrw

First of all I don't think you are entitled to damages. If you
disagree you are free to forward all communications with the insurance
company to your state's insurance comission.

Such items are sometimes used in commercial kitchens for sanitary
reasons (in lieu of gloves) where workers handle food and related
things with their fingers. However, I'm uncertain from the facts
related precisely what the substance the legal claim would be in this
instance. The recipient of the items is 25 months old and if anything
looked upon the cots as a curiosity, assuming they aroused the child's
curiosity at all. I can certainly understand where if a child choked
or nearly choked on such a thing, or if the item communicated a
disease, its presence would give rise to a claim. However, in this
case where their presence in a child's food dish was shocking,
irritating or disconcerting to adults, but fortunately gave rise to no
injury of any kind, I do not see the basis for advancing any
substantial claim on the child's behalf. I feel certain this was not
done purposely and likely came about because the cots were kept in a
bowl in the kitchen for dispensing to employees. Unfortunately, it
appears that some mindless creature may have been unaware of the
bowl's contents and hastily took the bowl to fill it with food. I
feel the important thing here is to feel that fortunately the child
was not injured in any way and all's well that ends well. Though the
occurrence and what was found my be repugnant to the parents as
customers, bygones should be treated as bygones without making abig
deal over it. If I felt similarly offended by the occurrence I would
not return to the restaurant but would not spend another second of my
time on this matter. I certainly do understand the need to have the
bill cancelled by the restaurant or to be reimbursed for the bill if
it was paid before departing. In short, if the insurance carrier
offers anything, take it and move on because the whole thing is no
more than a tempest in a teapot!

Saw the word condom...had to read it.

if Kenneth is the OP then who was dilbert and his condom spam?

Yuck! That's disgusting! Not to mention dangerous! For any age of
person. I hope this gets checked out thoroughly.

My Goal is not to obtain Money. My goal at this point is to shut this
Restaurant DOWN. And I will spend time and money to do this. If you
go to
http://www.healthspace.ca/Clients/VDH/Hampton/Hampton_Website.nsf
You can see that this Restaurant was warned repeatedly about putting
nonfood items on food prep tables. They have Several Critical Repeat
Violations (not minor repeats).You can also see that they had the same
disgusting violations repeatedly and apparently don’t care about
Public Health Safety. They have also let their Hampton Food manager
certificate expire. Read for yourself the other disgusting things
that Health Inspectors have witnessed there. Imagine what goes on when
there not there.
Inspection Type Inspection Date Violations
Routine Inspection 1-Aug-2011 4 critical
Routine Inspection 2-May-2011 3 critical
Routine Inspection 26-Jan-2011 4 critical
Routine Inspection 4-Nov-2010 1 critical
Routine Inspection 28-Jul-2010 1 critical
Routine Inspection 27-Apr-2010 3 critical
Routine Inspection 14-Jan-2010 1 critical
Routine Inspection 2-Oct-2009 0 critical
Routine Inspection 24-Jun-2009 2 critical
Routine Inspection 24-Mar-2009 5 critical
Routine Inspection 7-Nov-2008 5 critical
Routine Inspection 24-Jun-2008
Routine Inspection 4-Feb-2008 3 critical
Routine Inspection 30-Oct-2007 2 critical
Routine Inspection 23-Jul-2007 5 critical
Routine Inspection 30-May-2007 3 critical

That is totally unacceptable. The toddler could have choked and/or
died!!! This should be throughly investigated and compensation is due.
If Chili's staff is not held accountable, then it could happen again.

You're acting as if they put the finger COTS in your childs food on
purpose. It was an honest mistake, it happens, nobody is perfect. I
think it's rather petty of you to want someone to lose their job over
an accident.

Oh and a 25 month old is called a 2 year old.

Can I sue Dilbert for saying Finger CONDOM, it is annoying me.

We use these at my job EVERY SINGLE DAY. NO ONE has ever referred to
them as finger condoms. It's a classless term. They're called
"rubber fingertips," "rubber fingers," and something else I can't
remember right now. Also: "thumb thingies." Move FORWARD and stop
thinking you're owed money for a near miss.

Chili's did not do this on purpose to your 2 yr old. It could have
easily happened to the next person who ordered that.

They are not condoms, they are bandages for fingertips and most likely
got there accidentally. Since your child did not eat them, there are
no damages.

Try?


Was something preventing them from taking the dish away?



Were they trying to fix the issue and replace the food in question?

Settle? You have no damages.

a CONDOM in your child's food, so stop calling it that. It was a
finger cot to cover bandages or other finger injuries and they aren't
"commonly" referred to as finger condoms by anyone other than teenage
boys looking to be offensive!

Besides, it's not like a finger can forcibly expell bodily fluids, so
the two aren't even comparable.

Second, they didn't "DO" this to a toddler. It was an accident that
could have just as easily been in you or your wife's food. There was
no deliberate malice involved. Don't you think that firing someone
for a mistake is a bit excessive given the circumstance?

Third, if the insurance is trying to contact you, they are at least
taking it seriously (even though no one was harmed!!!) and trying to
make it right. But personally, if I was awaiting the outcome of an
insurance investigation, I wouldn't post letters to the Internet until
the check was in my hand.

My guess is they were in the bowl for some reason when someone used
it.

You keep acting like they did this on purpose to your toddler. I
seriously doubt thats the case.

I dont see why you didnt get comped for the meal, I found a bug in my
salad one time and they comped my whole meal. Though you using the
words "settle" sounds like you are looking for alot more.

Physical contamination of food is never a good experience, and it is
ironic that the contaminant itself is a product designed to PREVENT
this type of contamination.

While throwing the word condom around makes the situation sound worse,
there were no condoms involved. Even you acknowledge that it was a
finger cot, which is a commonly used item in restaurants to ensure
that band aids, etc, do not fall into food.

I seriously doubt Chilis was intentionally out to get your 25 month
old. I think it may have been an accident such as a box of them
spilled somehow in a prep area, or another similar situation.
Management needs to investigate and find out how this happened and how
it can be prevented in the future.

Well, that's about the most disgusting thing I've heard of in a while.