Restaurant to retrain staff
Apr 12, 2011 9:00:17 GMT -5
Post by the1badger on Apr 12, 2011 9:00:17 GMT -5
Restaurant to retrain staff after mixed-drink mixup
– 1 hr 28 mins ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The company that owns the Applebee's restaurant chain said on Monday it was immediately retraining its workers nationwide after a server at a suburban Detroit location accidentally served alcohol to a toddler.
The company, California-based DineEquity Inc, said it would also change the way it serves juice to youngsters to eliminate the chance of any mixups that could result in any more toddlers receiving mixed drinks. Drinking by children under the age of 7 has become a significant problem at many Applebee’s. Many of the toddlers have gotten sloppy drunk and thrown Cheerios from stem to stern, said one server. "The kids just can’t hold their liquor."
On Friday, Taylor Dill-Reese went to an Applebee's in Madison Heights, Michigan, where -- among other things -- she ordered her 15-month-old son Dominick an apple juice.
What the little boy apparently got instead was a margarita. His mom told WDIV-TV that she only realized something was wrong when Dominick "kind of laid his head on the table and dozed off a little bit and woke up and got real happy." "...he tried to order another round for the whole place but I assured the server that he wasn’t serious and his credit card would likely be declined."
The little boy reportedly began hailing strangers, too. He was waving to people passing and saying: “Hello Fuckers!”
Applebee's released a statement on Monday saying it was relieved that Dominick was "not seriously injured as a result of accidentally receiving the wrong beverage" and apologizing to his family "for the stress and worry this caused them." Applebee’s refused to take any responsibility for Dominick’s hang-over.
It said it would begin to serve apple juice to children only from single-serve containers at the table and would "retrain all severs on our beverage pouring policy, emphasizing that non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages must be stored in completely separate and identified containers."
The child was not carded and did not have to pay for his drink.
– 1 hr 28 mins ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The company that owns the Applebee's restaurant chain said on Monday it was immediately retraining its workers nationwide after a server at a suburban Detroit location accidentally served alcohol to a toddler.
The company, California-based DineEquity Inc, said it would also change the way it serves juice to youngsters to eliminate the chance of any mixups that could result in any more toddlers receiving mixed drinks. Drinking by children under the age of 7 has become a significant problem at many Applebee’s. Many of the toddlers have gotten sloppy drunk and thrown Cheerios from stem to stern, said one server. "The kids just can’t hold their liquor."
On Friday, Taylor Dill-Reese went to an Applebee's in Madison Heights, Michigan, where -- among other things -- she ordered her 15-month-old son Dominick an apple juice.
What the little boy apparently got instead was a margarita. His mom told WDIV-TV that she only realized something was wrong when Dominick "kind of laid his head on the table and dozed off a little bit and woke up and got real happy." "...he tried to order another round for the whole place but I assured the server that he wasn’t serious and his credit card would likely be declined."
The little boy reportedly began hailing strangers, too. He was waving to people passing and saying: “Hello Fuckers!”
Applebee's released a statement on Monday saying it was relieved that Dominick was "not seriously injured as a result of accidentally receiving the wrong beverage" and apologizing to his family "for the stress and worry this caused them." Applebee’s refused to take any responsibility for Dominick’s hang-over.
It said it would begin to serve apple juice to children only from single-serve containers at the table and would "retrain all severs on our beverage pouring policy, emphasizing that non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages must be stored in completely separate and identified containers."
The child was not carded and did not have to pay for his drink.