{"id":7647,"date":"2018-06-28T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2020-06-12T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:05:57","slug":"delicious-dough-turns-into-a-burning-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/delicious-dough-turns-into-a-burning-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Dough Turns into a Burning Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While a patron may expect and hope for a hot meal when dining out at a restaurant, there is a degree to which food may be considered too hot. \u00a0In the case of Nathanael Smith, he was served a dinner roll that physically burned his hand. Last year, Nathanael was in Ozark, Missouri with his family, on vacation.\u00a0 They had decided to eat dinner at Lambert\u2019s Caf\u00e9, which is famous for tossing hot rolls at the customers.\u00a0 According to the lawsuit recently filed against the Caf\u00e9, a waiter had placed the hot roll in front of Nathanael.\u00a0 The waiter had tossed a roll to Nathanael\u2019s father and handed a roll to his mother, but physically placed Nathanael\u2019s roll down in front of him to pick up.\u00a0 When Nathanael reached for the piping hot roll, he reacted in a way that is directly linked to his brain injury. \u00a0He clenched his fist around the roll, unable to let go.<\/p>\n

Following a training accident two years ago, the 22-year-old Army veteran was left mentally disabled; and is bound to a wheelchair.\u00a0 Nathanael\u2019s speech is limited, but he is still able to communicate. The roll<\/a> placed in front of Nathanael was so unnecessarily hot; but instead of releasing his grasp, his new response to pain forced his hand to tighten around the hot ball of dough. Typically, a person with stable senses would avoid the hot item. Nathanael\u2019s severe brain injury caused him to react differently.<\/p>\n

Nathanael\u2019s father rushed to remove the burning bun from his son\u2019s clenched fist, piece by piece. The dining staff offered cold cloths to ease the pain. The efforts of both Nathanael\u2019s father and the Caf\u00e9 staff did not prevent the burn<\/a> blister that was quickly forming on the Army vet\u2019s hand.\u00a0 Nathanael was taken to the hospital but suffered second degree burns. \u00a0Shortly following the incident, the Smith family left the Ozarks early to go back home to Florida. The family has since filed a claim on Nathanael\u2019s behalf, naming Lambert\u2019s Caf\u00e9 as the negligent party in the personal injury lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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