I have a difficult time understanding the mentality of people who sue over things that are, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, isolated accidents. Today's lawsuit: two women are suing separate Olive Gardens because they got sick after eating there. In this case the sicknesses don't even appear to have been caused by shortcomings at either restaurant; the tainted lettuce was apparently contaminated when it arrived. I guess Olive Garden should have boiled all the lettuce before serving it.
Coincidentally, I got a stomach bug after eating at Olive Garden a few years ago. (To be clear, I don't know for certain that Olive Garden was the source of the illness. But at the time I ate very little meat; I ate chicken at Olive Garden; and the critter that infected me is strongly associated with poultry.) I can't imagine suing over something of that nature. If there were evidence of gross negligence, sure. But there wasn't. According to the Health Department mine was the only recorded incident around that time, and there was no evidence to suggest that my food was mishandled or improperly cooked.
I'm all for holding people accountable, but let's face it: sometimes shit (literally) happens. Surely we can handle these simple issues without bogging down the courts.
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