A Connecticut woman decided to sue the Chopt restaurant chain after she was horrified to discover that she had just chewed a piece of a human finger that had fallen into her salad after the restaurant’s manager cut himself.
Last April, American Allison Cozzi of Greenwich, while enjoying a meal, noticed that she was “chewing part of a human finger that had mixed with the salad and become part of it,” the lawsuit told CBS News.
The latter was accidentally found in the customer’s salad after the manager of the restaurant based in Mount Kisco, New York state, cut her finger while preparing arugula, American media reported.
Except employees allegedly accidentally served the contaminated salad to customers without realizing there was a piece of finger underneath the greens.
But according to the lawsuit, the woman went into shock, then suffered panic attacks, migraines, cognitive impairment, nausea, dizziness and neck and shoulder pain after eating her finger in the salad. She claimed she was contaminated.
The amount of damages has not yet been determined, but the facility has already had to pay a $900 fine to the Westchester County Health Department for the incident.
The restaurant chain Chopt Creative Salad Co., with 70 franchise locations in the eastern United States, wouldn’t be the only one to have lost a finger: In 2016, a pregnant woman reportedly found a piece of a bloody finger in her salad, according to CBS News Applebee’s is in California.
Similar incidents occurred in Michigan in 2012 with a roast beef sandwich from Arby’s, in Florida in 2010 with a green salad made from fried chicken at an IHOP, and in 2005 with a pint of ice cream at Kohl’s. A frozen custard shop in North Carolina was reported by American media listed.