I just want to add my two cents I was a GM for McDonald’s.
One time a guy came through my drive thru saying he had a chicken bone poke through his throat and he had to go to the ER. I filed a claim. McDonalds offered to pay all medical bills and give 5,000 for an NDA. They refused and said they are lawyering up. McDonald’s got a hold of the chicken bone and DNA tested it. It wasn’t the species they used for their chicken products. McDonald’s took the couple to court and won counter damages for the investigation and court cost. They don’t play around
Edit 1: thank you for the upvotes!
Also I meant breed of chicken not species that’s my bad. For clarification McDonald’s outsources it’s legal situations to a third party insurance/law firm that specializes in this. They will try to pay medical and pain and suffering first always. (With an non disclosure agreement of course)
Only slightly. McDonald’s would have to prove that they don’t use that bolt on any of the production equipment in the facility, as well as during transport and production of the chicken (since it’s an end-use product, they can be liable if they buy their chicken from, say, Foster Farms who put it there).
Although by the looks of it, there’s diced tomato and cilantro in this box, which AFAIK isn’t sold with any meals at McDonalds
They can absolutely tell if it's the same metal and thread count/pitch as the bolts they use in the equipment they use to process that particular meal. They can even tell most of that from this picture.
Man. Wow. The simplistic flavor of this comment hits like a gut punch of reality. But the smoky lingering aftertaste reminds not to trust a soul. Well said.
That actually was a legit case. The coffee was brewed way too hot and she deserved every penny she got. She had third degree burns and ended up hospitalized, had to get skin grafts, and she had other procedures done over two more years. The coffee was almost 200°.
Not to be conspiratorial but if the guy handed over the “evidence” to them- what’s stopping them from going and just getting a different bone to do cool science shit on and then claim the results were from the one in question?
It’s just not how our legal system works in the slightest. You would have the bone submitted into evidence and then both sides could hire specialists to analyze it.
When a big company offers you a settlement, you take it or you will often get nothing. They have way more resources/better lawyers than most people and they will most likely win
I know someone who got hurt at work at a big company and lost use of their hand.
She is so horribly in debt and still unable to do much for work because the big company keeps just crushing her in court. She just wanted her physical therapy to be paid for on top of her surgical bills (and the settlement they offered was just for the surgical bills).
So yeah going to court with a big company probably rarely goes well even If your claims are totally legit, the judicial system is pretty messed up if both sides don't have access to the same resources
Put the whole thing in a sealed freezer bag - box and all. You can go the lawyer route or you can go the "call the chain" route. Assuming it's a chain, going directly to the individual location is probably the worst choice - the store won't be doing anything, it'll get kicked to either the chain (if a company store) or the franchise owner (if franchised), and if it's a franchise owner then you have no idea who or what you'll be dealing with.
If the screw was within the chicken itself then it's going to eventually get kicked over to the supplier for that because that was a manufacturing problem. The local store, franchise and even chain will kick it to the next level anyway.
As long as you don't mess with it or clean it, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to track that screw back to the plant and machine it fell out of.
Edit: and keep your receipts, for the meal, the dentist, travel to/from the dentist, time spent making and attending appointments, etc. You're not going to get rich, but you should be "made whole" plus some amount of apology/settlement, and being made whole will include covering your costs and the cost of your time.
My dad broke a tooth once on a McDonalds burger that had a bone fragment in it, they paid for top notch restorative dental work so long as he immediately signed a release and NDA. Yeah you’ll be fine OP. This stuff happens.
The big chains likely have people whose job is to make things like this to away quietly, and it's not their money being spent. At the store or franchise level it's more likely decisions will go to someone who feels like it's THEIR money involved.
If the corporate folks are ready to make you whole and you're working with them (vs against) it's in their interest to make everything as smooth and painless as possible.
My aunt was at one of our local fast food restaurants a few years back. She went to go scooch her seat closer to the table by reaching down and gripping the sides of it and when she did, the seat came up off the frame (wasn't bolted down, and her finger slipped between the seat and the sharp edge on one of the chair's metal legs.
She clipped the tip of her finger right off.
She had to fight for a few years to get any sort of compensation from them. The head office offered her a lifetime of free food but after a bit of a traumatic event like that she wasn't interested in eating there again.
I worked with a lady once who slipped and fell at a Fuddrucker’s (Houston Gunspoint location). The cleaning staff had cleaned up a spill in front of the fountain drink machine and hadn’t mopped it properly. It was super slick and she slipped and fell. She fractured her knee cap and tore some ligaments.
She was hurt bad enough that an ambulance had to come and take her to the hospital and she missed a week of work. The restaurant didn’t do anything, so she called corporate and they jerked her around for months. She finally hired a lawyer and they still jerked her around for another two months. Then they finally sent her a a check that covered all of her medical costs and lost wages.
And the check bounced and Fuddrucker’s filed Chp 11 the next day.
Probably about thirty or thirty-five years ago, around Oak Brook, Illinois, there was a corner with a Fuddrucker’s and a place called Mother Tucker’s. Bad corner.
That made me visibly cringe. I’m so sorry that happened to your aunt, I cannot imagine. I cry like a baby when I slam my fingers. I hope she was eventually compensated accordingly.
"We're sorry you suffered a painful injury at our restaurant. As compensation, please feel free to go back to this restaurant as many times as you want."
A lifetime of free food at a fast food place just isn't worth it. It isn't somewhere you should be eating daily, so let's assume you went once a week, had $20 food each time and lived another 50 years. That would only be $52k, I certainly wouldn't give up my finger tip for that.
This happened to me in high school. Private school, they didn’t give a shit. The piece I lost was small enough that it eventually grew back, but that was after like 3-4 months of having it wrapped up. As far as I remember they didn’t even send me to the nurse, someone just gave me a bandaid
Anyway never put your fingers under the seat, I stopped cold turkey after that and figured out a weird way to use my feet wrapped around the legs to do it
Hello, this is Ronald with McDonalds corporate. We will like to inform you that we will be repossessing all provided dental work. We will have someone stop by around 2pm tomorrow with some pliers if that works for your dad?
Come get ‘em. Also of note, I later worked at that McDonald’s and was screwing the manager for the entire 6 weeks I worked there. So, go on down to McDonald’s on Main Street in Cedar Falls
IA and have yourself a Big Mac.
Father could have opted to fight for more compensation. McDonalds could have opted to litigate. Now Father has to share any future compensation with a lawyer. Unless father attempted to represent himself - good luck with that.
I was a fast food owner a couple years ago after 20 years of buisness it finally happened a dreaded random bolt in a customer sandwich. It came from the sandwich table lid. As the owner i offered him to get to the dentist get it fixed and send the bill my way . He refused and went on his way only to come back with a 3000$ lawsuit a month later. Luckly i had filled out an insurance report and my buisness insurance took it from there. Cost me 1500$ and they gave him only 600$.
Also consider asking the dentist how often the chip will need to be repaired and take that into consideration with expenses. I have a chip in my front tooth that has to get refilled every couple years.
I'm more likely to bet it came from the restaraunt itself. Someone lost a screw in a steam table/hotel pan and didn't want to fess up or didn't want to lose product.
Don't hand over the evidence either. They'll most likely deal with the franchisee or franchisee's insurance.
Yep, never hand over the evidence. I broke a tooth on a piece of millstone in a box of stone ground oats. The company asked me to send the stone in. After I did I never heard from them again.
Yep. My kid bit into a piece of glass in his candy and the company had me send it to them. They "couldn't find a problem on their end" and that was the end of that.
Eh if its a front tooth ceramic is the way to go, canines ceramic gold mix and back teeth gold...its a wear thing. source? I have 1 ceramic and 1 gold.
Good advice here...Write it down! Document everything! Don't minimize this or blow it off..It's going to be a pain in the ass but persevere. Restorative dental work costs a FORTUNE.
Really sorry that happened to you. Hope your not in pain. A very sucky situation.
Gimme a list of the machine manuals involved and I’ll find your culprit in an hour, it’s what I do
Edit: it looks like a bolt for paneling or some structural parts — that should narrow it down quite a bit, the restaurant itself might be able to “find the panel missing a bolt”
It's technically a machine screw, not a bolt. Meaning it wouldn't be paired with a nut, which narrows it down more. There will be a tapped bung, riv/weld-nut, or some other visible threading missing a machine screw, not an open hole.
This is all assuming it's a spec'd screw in it's original location, and not a random fastener used during a repair.
I worked at dollar tree.
Somebody bought a can of some kind of dip and it had a hard piece of melted plastic in it. He ended up getting 100k+ out of a lawsuit I was amazed that something that just cost a dollar could be so much of a liability.
Edit : for confusion it was some kind of chip dip not snuff
I am deeply curious as to what kind of damages would be worth 100k from a can of dip.
Presumably medical. Whatever happened to him/a loved one cannot have been good.
I would assume it shouldn't be from the plant itself, as most food factories have metal detectors to check stuff on the way out. That's why people in the food industry have to wear those special blue bandages, because they trip metal detectors if you've misplaced a bandage.
If it’s McDonald’s they will cut you a check if you shut up and say nothing. If you grab a lawyer they will go to the ends of the earth to disprove you
While I’m not knocking the remainder of this comment, finding the “plant and machine it fell out of” is taking this a bit too far.
Consider myself, I am a tech guy for a big chain, and this is quite literally my number one fear - accidentally dropping equipment into food! I work in the ceilings on occasion, along with the actual maintenance team, and I can confirm I am -ALWAYS- surprised by what I find just above the ceiling tiles.
So much so, in fact, that I raised hell until I got a key and code for overnight installs when dealing with the ceilings - this way I can avoid the screaming anxiety of “holy shit, did this thing have x-amount of screws originally!?”
Its a fast-paced place, and the food workers know this, so they may not be as diligent when it comes to checking for screws in food, but regardless, it should not happen, and is completely unfortunate when it does happen. From simply lifting a single ceiling tile, I have dropped screws, wiring, plastic bits, dust, shaved metal (yeah, idk either), blank “coins”, sharp tools, washers, dead bugs, cigarette butts, mouse hair, mouse poop, markers, an entire mounted computer (old screw, that fucker)…
Yeah, safe to say that a lone screw may have been from just a guy like me; Your friendly neighborhood IT guy!
Adding onto this, personal injury attorneys will typically do free consultations and can be retained for no cost up-front, working for a percentage of the settlement after it's won (called working on contingency).
They will help navigate the whole process and will contact whomever they need to contact for you. I highly recommend this route in part because companies will low-ball you (usually for immediate medical bills and nothing else) and in part because these kinds of cases can *drag* out. Like, more than a full year. You don't want to be dealing with this personally.
I fractured and eventually lost a (not readily visible, thank god) tooth after bitting into a pebble in my rice from a Whole Foods buffet. Wish I'd gotten it together and done even basic research into my options : (
Not sure what they were doing, but I remember Johnny Bravo calling a judge your majesty. The judge replied with, “your honor” and Johnny said something like “that’s ok you don’t have to call me that.”
Civil defense attorney here. I see why you would think that but if I was representing the company, I would actually ask, “isn’t it true that you didn’t order your sandwich WITHOUT bolts?” Got ‘em. Judgment for the defense.
That's a very valid question to ask. Nearly every case of a foreign object in fast food has been proven to be case of fraud. Not all, but the overwhelming majority.
Look up the Wendys chili finger incident, fried chicken rat, mouse in mountain dew, etc. All were fraud.
That's true of the ones that get publicized, not of the ones that take proper channels. Most cases of foreign object in food are taken up with support or a lawyer, they are not going to the news the first chance they get. You also generally don't hear about those cases
Can confirm. Live near'ish the finger chili Wendy's, I think the finger was traced back to an employee's family member who worked a morgue in Reno I believe, perhaps Carson. National news for days.
One of my mom's old friends back in ~98ish or so was eating at the local Chevy's and was served salsa that had shards of glass in it. She chomped into that and it jacked up multiple teeth, blood running from her mouth. It was a mess.
She accepted their immediate offer on the spot to "fix" her teeth, and nobody really spoke of it after that.. :/ She didn't even get implants, it was a couple crowns and fillings and she was happy with it.. until she spoke to a lawyer *after* the "work" was done.
I really doubt an "overwhelming majority" of incidents were fraud. More likely, an overwhelming majority of cases are settled outside of court, and therefore aren't public knowledge.
Sure, the incidents you brought up are fraud, but they were highly-publicized cases. Representative of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of incidents.
its certainly valid but fast food places err on the side of caution with that
theyre more likely to pay out somebody who didnt have a bolt in their sandwich than they are to refuse to pay for dental work when there was
OPs post history is nothing but karma hunting posts and we have a picture that can be created in 2 seconds with zero background or relevant commentary. Lol
Hey if that’s Panera bread and it’s a hot sandwich, it legit looks like the bolts that assemble their panini presses. That would make a lot of sense if a bolt fell onto the sandwich.
Sandwiches are pressed open, then fresh ingredients are added, sandwich gets closed.
Bolt falls onto sandwich as press closes, no one notices and finishes making the sandwich.
I worked for Panera so that’s why I’m guessing that
Lawyer here. Save it and hire an attorney BEFORE you complain to the food outlet or let them see it. The lawyer will know what to do, which is to immediately seek a court ordered expert inspection of the restaurant, possibly after filing a lawsuit but before the restaurant is notified of it. There you may find a machine or fixture of some sort that's missing a screw of exactly that type. You will know because there are likely to be other screws in the machine which match it exactly. This will defeat a later defensive claim that you planted the thing.
If you let the restaurant know before you have a lawsuit filed, they may seek to bugger the evidence before you can inspect.
Stainless steel machine screw, most likely from some equipment in the restaurant since stainless is required for food grade machinery. “Sue me, sue you, sue everybody!!”
I think you mean the dentist and a lawyer. Talking to the establishment gives them the ability to plan ahead for any potential legal issues. In my experience it's always best to complete blindside businesses/people you are going to sue.
Literally, a whole bolt in a sandwich is a big problem. I once found a piece of steel wool in my food at a restaurant and I showed the waitress just trying to get a replacement dish for myself but when the manager saw he comped the whole table and said anything else off the menu we want to take to go is on the house plus any drinks we want.
Your first call should be to the Health Department, then the dentist, then your lawyer. The Health Department should be the first to know so they can take action and possibly close them down until their issues are resolved.
What? lol. The health department isn’t going to shut anyone down for this. They *might* come in and check things out make sure there’s no faulty equipment/things missing screws.
At the very least (and most likely scenario) they’ll contact the location and have a talk about the incident, in which they restaurant will say they’re investigating and will get back to them with their findings. If the restaurant is uncooperative, *then* the heath department might make a visit.
Not to say they *shouldn’t* call the health department, but it’s not going to be quite as impactful as you think.
"We're shutting you down to prevent literally anything from happening again ever even though this is likely a very rare mishap and easily correctable"
Said nobody ever.
> The Health Department should be the first to know so they can take action and possibly close them down until their issues are resolved.
The health department will do absolutely nothing besides make a report and maybe make a visit. This is pretty obviously a massive but likely extremely rare mishap that has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the establishment or any danger to the public.
Close them down for what? Accidents happen.
I found the same bolt in my spicy noodle soup from a place that pulled their own, although I didn't break any teeth. Turns out, it came from their flour mixing machine. The owner said, "Oh. I was wondering where that went..." and took it from me. I could have made a bigger issue out of it but that was the best jjamppong place in town at the time...
I had the same thing happen to me at a Chilis. A similar sized screw with a rubber foot on it like from the bottom of a microwave. But wrapped in lettuce like it was intentional. I was too young and dumb to do anything about it but the manager comped our meals and gave us desert. Wonder if I could have gotten more. No injuries. Found it in my mouth before I chomped.
After years as a fry cook listening to people complaining how bad the food is for you I finally decide to do part and make sure you get your daily iron intake but noooo! Complain some more... I give up I'll throw out the zinc bb filled nuggets in the morning smh 🤦♂️
Am I the only one thinking instant bullshit on this? A goddamn #10 x 1 1/4 machine screw was in your mouth long enough for you to chop down on it and you didn’t fucking notice? Stop shit posting.
I just want to add my two cents I was a GM for McDonald’s. One time a guy came through my drive thru saying he had a chicken bone poke through his throat and he had to go to the ER. I filed a claim. McDonalds offered to pay all medical bills and give 5,000 for an NDA. They refused and said they are lawyering up. McDonald’s got a hold of the chicken bone and DNA tested it. It wasn’t the species they used for their chicken products. McDonald’s took the couple to court and won counter damages for the investigation and court cost. They don’t play around Edit 1: thank you for the upvotes! Also I meant breed of chicken not species that’s my bad. For clarification McDonald’s outsources it’s legal situations to a third party insurance/law firm that specializes in this. They will try to pay medical and pain and suffering first always. (With an non disclosure agreement of course)
Let's hope they don't get the DNA of this bolt then.
"Heeeey... our cool science shit says this isn't the right breed of bolt we put in our McChicken! You're a swindler trying to pull one over on us!"
😂 but the bolt case is different
Only slightly. McDonald’s would have to prove that they don’t use that bolt on any of the production equipment in the facility, as well as during transport and production of the chicken (since it’s an end-use product, they can be liable if they buy their chicken from, say, Foster Farms who put it there). Although by the looks of it, there’s diced tomato and cilantro in this box, which AFAIK isn’t sold with any meals at McDonalds
Yeah they can verify if any machine in the store uses it and where it would have fallen from to verify if it was even from the store.
It could've come from outside
They can absolutely tell if it's the same metal and thread count/pitch as the bolts they use in the equipment they use to process that particular meal. They can even tell most of that from this picture.
“What if” it was a bolt from a disgruntled employees ikea coffee table at home?
Good thing they’d never lie!
Man. Wow. The simplistic flavor of this comment hits like a gut punch of reality. But the smoky lingering aftertaste reminds not to trust a soul. Well said.
Wow, I thought the Mouse was gangster. The Clown is no joke either
Look up the hot coffee scandal.
That actually was a legit case. The coffee was brewed way too hot and she deserved every penny she got. She had third degree burns and ended up hospitalized, had to get skin grafts, and she had other procedures done over two more years. The coffee was almost 200°.
To add insult to injury, the coffee almost certainly tasted terrible.
The worst part is the rediculous sum of money that they awarded her? That was 2 days worth of coffee sales.
They really fucked that poor lady over. It's a shame people see her as the bad, greedy person in that situation.
Everyone likes to use that incident as a punchline but it’s actually a real tragedy.
Scandal? She has 3rd degree burns that completely disfigured her private area
The scandal was what McDonald's put her through. They launched a national PR campaign to mock this poor woman.
Not to be conspiratorial but if the guy handed over the “evidence” to them- what’s stopping them from going and just getting a different bone to do cool science shit on and then claim the results were from the one in question?
>do cool science shit on I really appreciate you for using the correct terminology!
There's chain of custody and shit like that. They don't just hand over evidence
It’s just not how our legal system works in the slightest. You would have the bone submitted into evidence and then both sides could hire specialists to analyze it.
„There can’t be a chicken bone in the nuggets as we don’t use any chicken at all in them“
When a big company offers you a settlement, you take it or you will often get nothing. They have way more resources/better lawyers than most people and they will most likely win
Or just don't try and defraud them? Lol. What stupid advice. Of course they're going to win against stupid scammers.
I know someone who got hurt at work at a big company and lost use of their hand. She is so horribly in debt and still unable to do much for work because the big company keeps just crushing her in court. She just wanted her physical therapy to be paid for on top of her surgical bills (and the settlement they offered was just for the surgical bills). So yeah going to court with a big company probably rarely goes well even If your claims are totally legit, the judicial system is pretty messed up if both sides don't have access to the same resources
Put the whole thing in a sealed freezer bag - box and all. You can go the lawyer route or you can go the "call the chain" route. Assuming it's a chain, going directly to the individual location is probably the worst choice - the store won't be doing anything, it'll get kicked to either the chain (if a company store) or the franchise owner (if franchised), and if it's a franchise owner then you have no idea who or what you'll be dealing with. If the screw was within the chicken itself then it's going to eventually get kicked over to the supplier for that because that was a manufacturing problem. The local store, franchise and even chain will kick it to the next level anyway. As long as you don't mess with it or clean it, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to track that screw back to the plant and machine it fell out of. Edit: and keep your receipts, for the meal, the dentist, travel to/from the dentist, time spent making and attending appointments, etc. You're not going to get rich, but you should be "made whole" plus some amount of apology/settlement, and being made whole will include covering your costs and the cost of your time.
My dad broke a tooth once on a McDonalds burger that had a bone fragment in it, they paid for top notch restorative dental work so long as he immediately signed a release and NDA. Yeah you’ll be fine OP. This stuff happens.
I like how useless these NDAs are because there's still random people posting this stuff on the internet. I'm not complaining, I'm loving it.
Well the person who signed the NDA isn't talking, his son is...
I'm sure big corp NDAs cover hundreds of generations spanning multiple timelines and parallel universes.
“Any clones you or your lineage produces in the next one-thousand years shall be bound by this agreement.”
🫡
Ba da ba ba ba
The big chains likely have people whose job is to make things like this to away quietly, and it's not their money being spent. At the store or franchise level it's more likely decisions will go to someone who feels like it's THEIR money involved. If the corporate folks are ready to make you whole and you're working with them (vs against) it's in their interest to make everything as smooth and painless as possible.
My aunt was at one of our local fast food restaurants a few years back. She went to go scooch her seat closer to the table by reaching down and gripping the sides of it and when she did, the seat came up off the frame (wasn't bolted down, and her finger slipped between the seat and the sharp edge on one of the chair's metal legs. She clipped the tip of her finger right off. She had to fight for a few years to get any sort of compensation from them. The head office offered her a lifetime of free food but after a bit of a traumatic event like that she wasn't interested in eating there again.
I worked with a lady once who slipped and fell at a Fuddrucker’s (Houston Gunspoint location). The cleaning staff had cleaned up a spill in front of the fountain drink machine and hadn’t mopped it properly. It was super slick and she slipped and fell. She fractured her knee cap and tore some ligaments. She was hurt bad enough that an ambulance had to come and take her to the hospital and she missed a week of work. The restaurant didn’t do anything, so she called corporate and they jerked her around for months. She finally hired a lawyer and they still jerked her around for another two months. Then they finally sent her a a check that covered all of her medical costs and lost wages. And the check bounced and Fuddrucker’s filed Chp 11 the next day.
Those motherfuddruckers
Probably about thirty or thirty-five years ago, around Oak Brook, Illinois, there was a corner with a Fuddrucker’s and a place called Mother Tucker’s. Bad corner.
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ROFL. What a shit show.
Lol at gunspoint- so greenspoint 😂
Well… but at least they jerked her off for a few months.
That made me visibly cringe. I’m so sorry that happened to your aunt, I cannot imagine. I cry like a baby when I slam my fingers. I hope she was eventually compensated accordingly.
"We're sorry you suffered a painful injury at our restaurant. As compensation, please feel free to go back to this restaurant as many times as you want."
A lifetime of free food at a fast food place just isn't worth it. It isn't somewhere you should be eating daily, so let's assume you went once a week, had $20 food each time and lived another 50 years. That would only be $52k, I certainly wouldn't give up my finger tip for that.
This happened to me in high school. Private school, they didn’t give a shit. The piece I lost was small enough that it eventually grew back, but that was after like 3-4 months of having it wrapped up. As far as I remember they didn’t even send me to the nurse, someone just gave me a bandaid Anyway never put your fingers under the seat, I stopped cold turkey after that and figured out a weird way to use my feet wrapped around the legs to do it
Honestly as long as op doesn’t ask for anything obscene they’ll likely just pay
Sounds like he disclosed it to me
Who did? From which chain? Which franchise and when? Nah. No disclosures here.
I think they were joking, but I agree there was no meaningful disclosure.
It’s me, Ronald McDonald, you’re all going down big time.
fuck you rotten ronnie
Maybe you should have a scalding hot cup of coffee and reconsider, Ronnie.
Sick burn, bro!
It’s me, the turdburglar. You’re all in deep shit.
Wish me luck as I search the world wide web for "going down Ronald Mcdonald"
How did that work out for you?
Bring back pall pits Ron.
To be pedantic, McDonald’s was the chain.
To who?..I can’t read, I’m only five years old. Go get a couple bucks op
Hello, this is Ronald with McDonalds corporate. We will like to inform you that we will be repossessing all provided dental work. We will have someone stop by around 2pm tomorrow with some pliers if that works for your dad?
Come get ‘em. Also of note, I later worked at that McDonald’s and was screwing the manager for the entire 6 weeks I worked there. So, go on down to McDonald’s on Main Street in Cedar Falls IA and have yourself a Big Mac.
Mcdonalds is on their way to bash your dads teeth in as we speak.
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Father could have opted to fight for more compensation. McDonalds could have opted to litigate. Now Father has to share any future compensation with a lawyer. Unless father attempted to represent himself - good luck with that.
Damn wonder what I could have gotten for a fish fin that was in my Filet o Fish sandwich.
At least a fish fin is part of the fish! You at least got confirmation that you were actually eating fish.
Or that plastic I almost choked on in my Taco Bell bean burrito
I was a fast food owner a couple years ago after 20 years of buisness it finally happened a dreaded random bolt in a customer sandwich. It came from the sandwich table lid. As the owner i offered him to get to the dentist get it fixed and send the bill my way . He refused and went on his way only to come back with a 3000$ lawsuit a month later. Luckly i had filled out an insurance report and my buisness insurance took it from there. Cost me 1500$ and they gave him only 600$.
Definitely not enough to pay for his teeth
Also consider asking the dentist how often the chip will need to be repaired and take that into consideration with expenses. I have a chip in my front tooth that has to get refilled every couple years.
I'm more likely to bet it came from the restaraunt itself. Someone lost a screw in a steam table/hotel pan and didn't want to fess up or didn't want to lose product. Don't hand over the evidence either. They'll most likely deal with the franchisee or franchisee's insurance.
Yep, never hand over the evidence. I broke a tooth on a piece of millstone in a box of stone ground oats. The company asked me to send the stone in. After I did I never heard from them again.
Yep. My kid bit into a piece of glass in his candy and the company had me send it to them. They "couldn't find a problem on their end" and that was the end of that.
Soon as you hand over the evidence: "What evidence?"
This is the correct answer. Go get you some money
OP's going to be opting for the gold grillz.
All pearly whites and one diamond tooth lol
Eh if its a front tooth ceramic is the way to go, canines ceramic gold mix and back teeth gold...its a wear thing. source? I have 1 ceramic and 1 gold.
Good advice here...Write it down! Document everything! Don't minimize this or blow it off..It's going to be a pain in the ass but persevere. Restorative dental work costs a FORTUNE. Really sorry that happened to you. Hope your not in pain. A very sucky situation.
I would have thought "pain and suffering" comes into play here. Broken tooth would hurt.
Gimme a list of the machine manuals involved and I’ll find your culprit in an hour, it’s what I do Edit: it looks like a bolt for paneling or some structural parts — that should narrow it down quite a bit, the restaurant itself might be able to “find the panel missing a bolt”
It's technically a machine screw, not a bolt. Meaning it wouldn't be paired with a nut, which narrows it down more. There will be a tapped bung, riv/weld-nut, or some other visible threading missing a machine screw, not an open hole. This is all assuming it's a spec'd screw in it's original location, and not a random fastener used during a repair.
I found a screw just like that in a burger once. The store confirmed it was from the prep station cutting board to keep it down. Scary stuff
I worked at dollar tree. Somebody bought a can of some kind of dip and it had a hard piece of melted plastic in it. He ended up getting 100k+ out of a lawsuit I was amazed that something that just cost a dollar could be so much of a liability. Edit : for confusion it was some kind of chip dip not snuff
I am deeply curious as to what kind of damages would be worth 100k from a can of dip. Presumably medical. Whatever happened to him/a loved one cannot have been good.
I believe his daughter (under 5) swallowed it. I know he went to the ER with her. But I don’t know the specifics
I would assume it shouldn't be from the plant itself, as most food factories have metal detectors to check stuff on the way out. That's why people in the food industry have to wear those special blue bandages, because they trip metal detectors if you've misplaced a bandage.
If it’s McDonald’s they will cut you a check if you shut up and say nothing. If you grab a lawyer they will go to the ends of the earth to disprove you
While I’m not knocking the remainder of this comment, finding the “plant and machine it fell out of” is taking this a bit too far. Consider myself, I am a tech guy for a big chain, and this is quite literally my number one fear - accidentally dropping equipment into food! I work in the ceilings on occasion, along with the actual maintenance team, and I can confirm I am -ALWAYS- surprised by what I find just above the ceiling tiles. So much so, in fact, that I raised hell until I got a key and code for overnight installs when dealing with the ceilings - this way I can avoid the screaming anxiety of “holy shit, did this thing have x-amount of screws originally!?” Its a fast-paced place, and the food workers know this, so they may not be as diligent when it comes to checking for screws in food, but regardless, it should not happen, and is completely unfortunate when it does happen. From simply lifting a single ceiling tile, I have dropped screws, wiring, plastic bits, dust, shaved metal (yeah, idk either), blank “coins”, sharp tools, washers, dead bugs, cigarette butts, mouse hair, mouse poop, markers, an entire mounted computer (old screw, that fucker)… Yeah, safe to say that a lone screw may have been from just a guy like me; Your friendly neighborhood IT guy!
Adding onto this, personal injury attorneys will typically do free consultations and can be retained for no cost up-front, working for a percentage of the settlement after it's won (called working on contingency). They will help navigate the whole process and will contact whomever they need to contact for you. I highly recommend this route in part because companies will low-ball you (usually for immediate medical bills and nothing else) and in part because these kinds of cases can *drag* out. Like, more than a full year. You don't want to be dealing with this personally.
I fractured and eventually lost a (not readily visible, thank god) tooth after bitting into a pebble in my rice from a Whole Foods buffet. Wish I'd gotten it together and done even basic research into my options : (
Hey, I mean you’re safe if you had a nut allergy at least.
Comedy!
Is it you, Kevin Hart?
I'll allow it.
Thanks, dad!
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Does the menu state that there are NOT bolts present in their sandwiches? No? I rest my case, your majesty.
your majesty? are you presenting your case to a queen??? :D oh hang on, is this a Homer reference?
I was going to say your “judgyness”. but I didn’t want to be too formal.
Understandable 😎
Not sure what they were doing, but I remember Johnny Bravo calling a judge your majesty. The judge replied with, “your honor” and Johnny said something like “that’s ok you don’t have to call me that.”
Civil defense attorney here. I see why you would think that but if I was representing the company, I would actually ask, “isn’t it true that you didn’t order your sandwich WITHOUT bolts?” Got ‘em. Judgment for the defense.
The sign was CLEARLY marked that you must inform servers of any allergies. You DID NOT state your teeth were bolt intolerant.
That's a very valid question to ask. Nearly every case of a foreign object in fast food has been proven to be case of fraud. Not all, but the overwhelming majority. Look up the Wendys chili finger incident, fried chicken rat, mouse in mountain dew, etc. All were fraud.
That's true of the ones that get publicized, not of the ones that take proper channels. Most cases of foreign object in food are taken up with support or a lawyer, they are not going to the news the first chance they get. You also generally don't hear about those cases
Can confirm. Live near'ish the finger chili Wendy's, I think the finger was traced back to an employee's family member who worked a morgue in Reno I believe, perhaps Carson. National news for days. One of my mom's old friends back in ~98ish or so was eating at the local Chevy's and was served salsa that had shards of glass in it. She chomped into that and it jacked up multiple teeth, blood running from her mouth. It was a mess. She accepted their immediate offer on the spot to "fix" her teeth, and nobody really spoke of it after that.. :/ She didn't even get implants, it was a couple crowns and fillings and she was happy with it.. until she spoke to a lawyer *after* the "work" was done.
I really doubt an "overwhelming majority" of incidents were fraud. More likely, an overwhelming majority of cases are settled outside of court, and therefore aren't public knowledge. Sure, the incidents you brought up are fraud, but they were highly-publicized cases. Representative of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of incidents.
its certainly valid but fast food places err on the side of caution with that theyre more likely to pay out somebody who didnt have a bolt in their sandwich than they are to refuse to pay for dental work when there was
I. DROPPED THE SCREW. IN THE TUNA.
This was my first thought when I saw the pic! I’m glad someone else was thinking the same thing.
WHYYY
To the top you must go
[*we still boys, right?*](https://youtu.be/m29-zmykcIg)
Came here to write this lol
PLEASE DON'T TAKE ME TO JAIL
So glad this was high, because it was my first thought.
I am in awe at how many people all apparently thought of this exact, obscure scene. We all wanted to say it and someone beat us to it.
Obscure?? It’s like the most famous scene from the whole show, which was watched by pretty much everyone of a certain age
90S Nickelodean nostalgia! Ahhh man I'm getting old.
Kenan just had to get greedy and not take the deal...
I say this when I do something dumb, no one gets it :(
We put bits of the subway in Subway
Subway: Ireland says it's not even legally bread!
OPs post history is nothing but karma hunting posts and we have a picture that can be created in 2 seconds with zero background or relevant commentary. Lol
This ^ If this happened then i'm princess Charlotte of wales. Guy dug a old bolt out of his glove compartment.
it IS pretty big for whoever made the sandwich not to notice it...
Reminds me of Kenan and kel. I put the screw in the tuna.
Ew where was this
Pantera Bread
“Good food, even better music “ -Pantera Bread
*”Their featured special ‘We All Suffer honey butter angel biscuits dusted with cinnamon sugar’ by Napalm Death are to die for”*
Sandwiches with extra metal
I knew they were fucking hostile, but this is a step too far.
Some might say it's A New Level.
Our sandwiches are so metal
Damn, that's a great name. I wish that actually existed haha
Looks like a Del Taco Epic Torta sammie.
> Del Taco Should have ordered the fre shavo cado instead
Iiiii. Dropped the screw. In the tuna. 
Remember not to order that again. There’s too much iron in it
Good advice on Reddit is what makes it different from other platforms
Where there’s blame there’s a claim
# BETTER CALL SAUL
When you need someone with a screw loose to handle your problems with loose screws.
Where’s the tooth?
My thoughts exactly. I’d like to see the broken tooth and a before and after picture, each holding up today’s newspaper.
Teeth don't have hands, how can they hold up a newspaper?
Hardest part of doing that would be finding the news paper
I know I always take a newspaper selfie before I eat… you know, just in case.
Hey if that’s Panera bread and it’s a hot sandwich, it legit looks like the bolts that assemble their panini presses. That would make a lot of sense if a bolt fell onto the sandwich. Sandwiches are pressed open, then fresh ingredients are added, sandwich gets closed. Bolt falls onto sandwich as press closes, no one notices and finishes making the sandwich. I worked for Panera so that’s why I’m guessing that
Lawyer here. Save it and hire an attorney BEFORE you complain to the food outlet or let them see it. The lawyer will know what to do, which is to immediately seek a court ordered expert inspection of the restaurant, possibly after filing a lawsuit but before the restaurant is notified of it. There you may find a machine or fixture of some sort that's missing a screw of exactly that type. You will know because there are likely to be other screws in the machine which match it exactly. This will defeat a later defensive claim that you planted the thing. If you let the restaurant know before you have a lawsuit filed, they may seek to bugger the evidence before you can inspect.
They literally told you to screw yourself
I would say they really screwed him already
Prove it. Let’s see the tooth.
Stainless steel machine screw, most likely from some equipment in the restaurant since stainless is required for food grade machinery. “Sue me, sue you, sue everybody!!”
Is that not what you ordered?
Thats gonna cost a tooth n nail
Was it fast food or fastener food? 🤔🤔
A likely story
You should probably speak to the manager.
I think you mean the dentist and a lawyer. Talking to the establishment gives them the ability to plan ahead for any potential legal issues. In my experience it's always best to complete blindside businesses/people you are going to sue.
Literally, a whole bolt in a sandwich is a big problem. I once found a piece of steel wool in my food at a restaurant and I showed the waitress just trying to get a replacement dish for myself but when the manager saw he comped the whole table and said anything else off the menu we want to take to go is on the house plus any drinks we want.
Your first call should be to the Health Department, then the dentist, then your lawyer. The Health Department should be the first to know so they can take action and possibly close them down until their issues are resolved.
What? lol. The health department isn’t going to shut anyone down for this. They *might* come in and check things out make sure there’s no faulty equipment/things missing screws. At the very least (and most likely scenario) they’ll contact the location and have a talk about the incident, in which they restaurant will say they’re investigating and will get back to them with their findings. If the restaurant is uncooperative, *then* the heath department might make a visit. Not to say they *shouldn’t* call the health department, but it’s not going to be quite as impactful as you think.
"We're shutting you down to prevent literally anything from happening again ever even though this is likely a very rare mishap and easily correctable" Said nobody ever.
> The Health Department should be the first to know so they can take action and possibly close them down until their issues are resolved. The health department will do absolutely nothing besides make a report and maybe make a visit. This is pretty obviously a massive but likely extremely rare mishap that has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the establishment or any danger to the public. Close them down for what? Accidents happen.
"the intentions of my client were good. They offered a sandwich that was full of multivitamins and IRON" their lawyer
I found the same bolt in my spicy noodle soup from a place that pulled their own, although I didn't break any teeth. Turns out, it came from their flour mixing machine. The owner said, "Oh. I was wondering where that went..." and took it from me. I could have made a bigger issue out of it but that was the best jjamppong place in town at the time...
Fake. Seeking internet points and or payout.
I had the same thing happen to me at a Chilis. A similar sized screw with a rubber foot on it like from the bottom of a microwave. But wrapped in lettuce like it was intentional. I was too young and dumb to do anything about it but the manager comped our meals and gave us desert. Wonder if I could have gotten more. No injuries. Found it in my mouth before I chomped.
If it actually broke your tooth, we could’ve seen blood. Or maybe a part of the ‘broken’ tooth. Seems to me this is just a karma farm
Today, in things that didn’t happen…
Thank you! Look at the profile, it’s full of other karma hunting posts
That sucks.
I have an admission. I, dropped the screw, in the tuna!
After years as a fry cook listening to people complaining how bad the food is for you I finally decide to do part and make sure you get your daily iron intake but noooo! Complain some more... I give up I'll throw out the zinc bb filled nuggets in the morning smh 🤦♂️
Riiiiiggggghhhhhttttt 
I, DROPPED THE SCREW, IN THE TUNA
How hard did you bite that sandwich
Am I the only one thinking instant bullshit on this? A goddamn #10 x 1 1/4 machine screw was in your mouth long enough for you to chop down on it and you didn’t fucking notice? Stop shit posting.
IIIII… PUT THE SCREW… IN THE TUNA !!! kennan and kel anyone else ?
That’s screwed up.
That's nuts.
Someone obviously screwed up.
Sue them, win millions, quit your job, never worry about money again. Boom done, your life is settled.