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  • I can’t speak with confidence about the legal situation in other countries, but in the US frivolous lawsuits are routinely punished by having the plaintiff cover the defendant’s legal costs plus compensation for their trouble. Avoiding liability in general is still best practice, but there’s no significant risk of liability from actions taken by a customer in the dining area, customers are supposed to be there and nobody could reasonably expect the restaurant owner/management to predict and/or control the behavior of all of their customers. The customer would be held responsible for their actions and would be on the hook for any damages.


  • “they represent a highly complex and dynamic area of tort law. They pose especially complex legal issues”

    Like I said, not simple at all. If the business owner wants to reduce liability they should definitely not be serving anything on a scalding hot piece of metal. A customer spilling any amount of non-scalding food onto another customer will absolutely not result in a successful lawsuit, at worst they might have to comp a meal or two. Feel free to try finding even a single example to the contrary, I’m open to being proven wrong.


  • Nothing in this wiki article proves me wrong, any injury to himself or other customers could just as easily occur without him carrying his own plate and the legal liability sitiation for it would be completely unchanged. And it is absolutely not simple, try actually reading the article you linked.

    There is no evidence that he was carrying fajitas or anything else served on a scalding hot piece of metal, you can plainly see a normal plate in his hand. And yeah actually serving food on a scalding hot piece of metal is fundamentally fucking unsafe. There is no evidence he got in any employees way or disrupted any workflow. There is no evidence that he isn’t trained, dude could just as easily be a food service employee himself. Quit making shit up and just admit you don’t know enough to judge.



  • Not half as weird as the commenters here making shit up to justify getting mad about a relatively innocuous behavior, yourself included. He could just as easily bump into someone and spill food on them while walking across the dining area for any reason, him carrying his own plate changes absolutely nothing. And if the food was hot enough to geld someone then the restaurant is going to get sued for serving it at absurdly unsafe temperatures, and they’ll deserve it, that also has fuck all to do with this guy carrying his own plate.



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    That would be contaminating the food and plates, not the counter, moron. And no I didn’t ignore your other points, I said the liability situation is unchanged because they can all just as easily occur without him carrying his own plate, learn to read. If you’ve got some evidence to suggest this guy goes around coughing on people’s food feel free to post it, otherwise quit making shit up and just admit you don’t know enough to judge.







  • Christina Ricci. I was maybe 5 or 6 the first time I saw the Addams Family movies, I was already extremely into everything scary and/or Halloween adjacent, and she was only a few years older than I was, and she was both pretty and scary, and the boy she gets paired with in Values reminded me of me. The overall effect of this was to fill me with a deep-seated lifelong fondness for spooky women in general and her in particular. A few years after that I saw Casper, which only reinforced the effect, and Sleepy Hollow showed up just in time for me to hit puberty.