Virginia Woman Sues Outback Steakhouse For $1.5 Million, Claiming She Slipped On Some Mashed Potatoes

Virginia Woman Sues Outback Steakhouse For .5 Million, Claiming She Slipped On Some Mashed Potatoes

Source: BroBible

Summary

A Virginia woman, Tracy J. Renshaw, is suing Outback Steakhouse for $1.5 million after she slipped on mashed potatoes at one of their restaurants and suffered serious injuries. The incident occurred on May 14, 2023, at a now-closed Outback Steakhouse in Sterling, Virginia. Renshaw claims the restaurant failed to provide a safe environment and did not clean up the mashed potatoes in a reasonable amount of time.


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The lawsuit enters the chat.

Slipping on mashed potatoes: a new kind of hazard.
A $1.5 million lawsuit for a face-first fall.
The slippery floor: an “unreasonably dangerous condition.”
The mashed potatoes: a “slippery foreign substance.”
The real question: who cleans up the mashed potatoes?


Author: Evan Null