Now toddler is served SANGRIA at Olive Garden restaurant

[Maine-ah]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376391/Now-toddler-served-SANGRIA-Olive-Garden-restaurant.html

A furious mum is planning legal action against a popular restaurant chain after her two-year-old son got drunk... when staff served him a cup of sangria!

Jill Van Heest, from central Florida, took her little boy Nikolai to dinner at the Olive Garden on Highway 98 in Lakeland on March 31st.


She claims he ordered orange juice and was brought a drink in a plastic cup. He drank most of it and minutes began behaving rowdily - clambering about on the furniture and being noisy.

At first Jill thought he was just behaving badly but then the waiter and the restaurant manager came over to their table and admitted they had served the youngster booze by mistake.

[frazzled]

1. self removed

[NeedleCast]

2. I see the press has found a new and important hot topic

The one in a million chance stories are so much fun! Olive Garden and Applebee's are the WORST. RESTURANTS. EVER!

[blondeatlast]

33. But the problem is EPIDEMIC!

We're up to FIVE incidences now!

[NeedleCast]

38. The Odds Are Against Us!!

Five incidences! That gives the toddler population of America like a one in a million chance of being served a serving of alcohol!

The most of obvious answer here it to gather the mob and put all chain restuarants to the torch*. It's the only way to protect the children!



*(Granted, most chain restaurants should be put to the torch...but not because of this).

[Stevenmarc]

3. Now they have a reason not to let him go on spring break in the future.

Well Nikolai we all know how you get when you drink.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I wasn't aware that Applebees and Olive Garden had liquor licenses

to begin with and they were allowed to serve alcohol to anyone.

[backscatter712]

5. Are they not like any other restaurant?

I've ordered beers & other drinks from Applebees and Olive Garden countless times.

Though with the OP standing as an exception, they normally don't serve booze to kids. That's like illegal and stuff.

[Maine-ah]

8. really?

I'm a former bartender for Bee's, and I can see how they may have fucked that up. Bartenders for Bee's are under a lot of pressure, as they are responsible not only for their bar, but for the server's drinks too, and many times they are also responsible for car side to go. Even so, containers are labeled and at the Bee's I worked at we never used pre-made items. Margarita's were "built" in the glass, and special glasses for alcoholic drinks. The margarita mix (which is just the mix, no alcohol) was kept near the juices in regular bar set up, labeled (the labels suck and tend to fall off) and each container (speed pours) has a different color tape to identify what was in it. Ex: cranberry juice has red and black tape around the container, apple juice, just black tape. Frozen margarita mix (no alcohol) has green and black tape, and rocks margarita mix has just black tape.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

31. Both Olive Garden and Applebees have dedicaded Bar sections as well.

At least around here they do. They have entire drink/wine menus.
Have you ever even been to either restaraunt??

[niyad]

6. how in the world could anyone mistake a toddler cup for a wine glass?

[Renew Deal]

7. This wouldn't have happened if she was breast feeding.

:evilgrin:

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. +1

:rofl:

[Maine-ah]

10. I was waiting for this...

:hi: :rofl:

[niyad]

11. isn't a two year old a bit old for breast-feeding?

[Renew Deal]

13. Depends on who you ask.

I've heard about it going on until 5.

[yellowcanine]

15. Sure does. I am not going to even go there. No upside whatsoever to that discussion.

[blondeatlast]

35. No, and who are you to decide what's best for her children?

(I kid, I kid!!!)

[geardaddy]

19. +1000

I was waiting for someone to say that!

[blondeatlast]

34. Thread win. nt

[WatsonT]

12. When I think of all the loops I had to go through to drink underage

and here they are just giving the stuff away to kids.

Apparently I went about it the wrong way.

[yellowcanine]

14. "began behaving rowdily - clambering about on the furniture and being noisy."

Just pointing out that this is normal behavior for many 2 year olds - not really evidence of being intoxicated.

[SidDithers]

17. It wasn't until Nikolai hit on the waitress...

punched the busboy and puked on his shoes that they knew something was wrong.

:hi:

Sid

[arbusto_baboso]

16. "At Olive Garden, you're like family, A family of alcoholics."

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. What kind of person goes to an Olive Garden in Central Florida?

:evilgrin:

[yellowcanine]

20. What kind of person takes a 2-year-old to an Olive Garden anywhere?

There is a span of time where children should not be taken to "regular" restaurants if it can at all be avoided.

Roughly the ages of one to fifteen.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. Olive Garden is a fast food chain, not a "regular" restaurant

:evilgrin:

[yellowcanine]

26. Ok maybe I should have just stuck with any place except Mickey Dees.

[snooper2]

25. you think Olive Garden is a "restaurant"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I think we need to have Gordon Ramsey have a chat with you :)

[blondeatlast]

37. If they offer crayons and a kid's menu, it's a family restaurant.

Olive Garden does both.

[blondeatlast]

36. The same type that makes fried chicken with crushed cornflakes and listens to Laura Branigan,

of course.

[rucky]

22. At least it wasn't breast milk.

:evilgrin:

[leeroysphitz]

23. I had to sue them for serving my son Cheez it chicken. n/t

[CreekDog]

24. If she was breast-feeding when it happened, DU could asploded

:hide:

[nessa]

27. I don't know, I've had Sangria at an Olive Garden and it's hard to believe...

even a toddler could get drunk on it. Maybe just our local franchise dilutes them so much, but the drink I had, had very little alcohol.

[SoCalDem]

28. and wouldn't most kids at least make a face when they taste alcohol?

Our son picked up a beer one day & gagged like crazy :)

How does a mother not notice that the "orange juice" was RED-ISH_PURPLE?

[Maine-ah]

40. I loved beer when I was a little kid

my dad would always let me finish the last sip of his....of course, as I got older I figured out it was all back wash in the bottle. :puke: but they always let us have sips of wine, or even at weddings we were allowed a little bit of champagne.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

29. I thought Olive Garden was Italian... since when did they become Irish??

[AngryAmish]

30. 1. I love sangria

2. I have nothing else important to add.

[blondeatlast]

39. Me too. Yuuuummmyyy! nt

[slackmaster]

32. IT'S AN EPIDEMIC OF TOTS BEING SERVED ALCOHOL AT CRAPPY CHAIN RESTAURANTS!111!!!!

CALL CONGREFS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!@@@!@!!@@@

[devilgrrl]

41. Funny. My Italian mother grew up drinking wine at dinner. Probably starting at age 2.

eom

[KamaAina]

42. She needs to go after them like a pit bull.

:evilgrin:

[Matariki]

43. Olive Garden? Why did it have to be Olive Garden?

:evilgrin: