A woman from Greenwich, Connecticut is taking legal action against the fast-food salad chain, Chop’t, claiming that she discovered part of an employee’s severed finger in her meal, Insider reported.
Allison Cozzi visited a Chop’t location in Mt. Kisco, New York on April 7 when she realized she was
“chewing on a portion of a human finger”
that had been mixed into her salad, according to her complaint.
The complaint, filed on Monday in a Westchester County court, states that earlier that day, a manager at the store accidentally chopped off a piece of their finger while cutting arugula and left for the hospital. Shockingly, the contaminated arugula was then left on the service line and served to customers, as alleged in the lawsuit.
Cozzi alleges that the restaurant’s negligence resulted in her sustaining injuries, including,
“severe and serious personal injuries, including shock, panic attacks, migraine and the exacerbation of migraine, cognitive impairment, traumatic stress and anxiety, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and neck and shoulder pain.”
According to the complaint, the Westchester County Department of Health has cited the restaurant for a health code violation. In September, the Chop’t location was fined $900 for not adhering to a code that mandates food establishments to operate in a way to
“avoid imminent health hazards.”
This information was obtained from the complaint and publicly available records reviewed by Business Insider.
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