A Crimson Robin worker allegedly tainted a buyer’s salad with semen, in line with a lawsuit filed previous this month. The client, who is known as within the lawsuit via the pseudonym C.T., says that the eating place used to be retaliating in opposition to him after he addressed an example of what he looked as if it would be racial bias.
In keeping with the lawsuit, the client, referred to as C.T., arrived at a Clackamas Crimson Robin on March 24, 2021, with a celebration of 8, together with kids. When the crowd requested to be seated in combination, Crimson Robin staff advised them that they needed to be seated at separate tables; most of the visitors within the celebration, together with C.T., have been Black. C.T. says he witnessed a number of different huge teams, consisting of white shoppers, being seated in combination. The lawsuit additionally claims eating place supervisor Jason Fosberg referred to the crowd C.T. had arrived with as a “large gang.” C.T. wondered the variation in remedy with control however agreed to be seated one after the other.
As C.T. ate a lawn salad he later ordered, he “changed into mindful that it contained semen,” in line with the lawsuit. Jason Kafoury, the attorney representing C.T., says his consumer ate “a good quantity of it earlier than noticing it had a humorous style,” and in the end came upon a pool of semen beneath the vegetables within the salad. Kafoury says the buyer complained to Crimson Robin’s control that evening, began feeling in poor health, and started to vomit. In keeping with the grievance, C.T. ended up going to the health facility “for nausea and a panic assault.”
The salad used to be packaged to-go via Crimson Robin, and laboratory checks at the leftovers showed that there used to be semen within the salad. The lab record additionally confirms that the semen used to be now not C.T.’s.
The plaintiff is soliciting for $1 million in damages from Crimson Robin for sexual abuse, negligence, and racial discrimination. “If we will be able to establish that it used to be a male workforce member’s DNA who did this, then they’re in beautiful deep bother,” Kafoury says. “They’re now not simply going through discrimination [charges] … they’re additionally taking a look at doable punitive damages.”
Crimson Robin has now not answered to a couple of requests for remark.
• C.T. v. Jason Fosberg, Crimson Robin
• Crimson Robin eating place workforce hid semen in salad after Portland buyer alleged racial discrimination, lawsuit claims
