A waiter at a restaurant in Sherbrooke, Canada, has been arrested for serving salmon fish to a highly allergic customer.
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A man, named Simon-Pierre Canuel, ordered beef tartare at a local restaurant last May and said a few times to the waiter that he was allergic to both seafood and salmon.
Canuel said he then placed his order for the beef tartare, and asked the waiter to double-check that the chef and kitchen staff knew about his allergy. When his tartare arrived in the dimly lit restaurant Canuel believed it was beef.
The waiter in Sherbrooke was arrested after the diner was rushed to hospital and spent two days in a coma.
Carrier said Thursday that police arrested a 22-year-old and released him on a promise to appear in court at a later date.
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Alain Dussault, owner of Le Hachoir, said it is common practice for staff in his restaurant to question customers extensively upon learning of a food allergy.
“If you can say, for example, that you’ve documented that, ‘We have X number of hours of training and in that training we talk about food intolerances and allergies and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and these are the protocols and these are the steps and everyone does it and so on and so forth, ‘ that’s going to sound a lot better than, ‘I didn’t know'”.
Hospitality and tourism professor Andy Hickl-Szabo of George Brown College says he tells his students to think about whether they’ve taken every measure to ensure the safety of their patrons. Now that Epipen was left in the auto.
Canuel said he attempted to contact Le Tapageur twice but never received any kind of response.
Mr Carrier said the victim filed an official complaint with Sherbrooke police on July 21.
Although this sort of case has been known to trigger a lawsuit, the possibility that the waiter will face criminal charges represents a “significant escalation” in how society addresses a mistake, CTV News legal analyst Edward Prutschi says.
In addition to filing a criminal complaint, Canuel says he plans to launch a civil suit.
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