you never know
so tonight my big plans with Asabi involved eating dinner at Cheesecake Factory in Sherman Oaks and then going to see "It Came From Beyond" over in hollywood. We had gotten through most of the Cheesecake Factory part when our server decided to bring Asabi the wrong cheesecake.
Asabi is deathly allergic to peanuts and peanut products, so when her piece of cheesecake arrived with what looked like nuts on top, Asabi immediately asked "Those look like nuts...those are not nuts are they?" to which the server replied "No, ma'am, there are no nuts...those are just caramel pieces"
Five minutes and 1/3 of the piece later, Asabi looked kind of funny at me and exclaimed "oh my god. There is PEANUT BUTTER in this!" (of course then i picked up one of the "caramel pieces" which was in fact, a PEANUT piece).
So we immediately pulled over the nearest server, who barely glanced at the piece in question and exclaimed "oh yeah, there are LOTS of nuts in that piece...that's our peanut butter swirl!"
Why the hell couldn't OUR server tell what it was?
So management came over and we told them that she needed Benedryl within the next ten minutes...well, either that or an ambulance! So one of the managers had to run out to the nearest market (which didn't end up having Benedryl...they had to go somewhere else afterward), and Asabi had to try to sit calmly and prevent the reaction from proceeding too quickly.
In the end, she was alright, but she was very close to passing out by the time the Benedryl came back, and I have seriously never been more pissed at a server before. I really don't care how busy he was (the restaurant wasn't abnormally crazy), we were very VERY specific about asking that there be no nuts (which I would think most people understand is a red flag for an allergy!), and he even LOOKED at the piece and stated that there were no nuts.
I still tipped him, but it was like 8%. I guess I can't NOT tip. =)
There's more to the story, but we basically didn't get to go to the show and drove home to Bakersfield instead. oy! Poor Asabi!
Asabi is deathly allergic to peanuts and peanut products, so when her piece of cheesecake arrived with what looked like nuts on top, Asabi immediately asked "Those look like nuts...those are not nuts are they?" to which the server replied "No, ma'am, there are no nuts...those are just caramel pieces"
Five minutes and 1/3 of the piece later, Asabi looked kind of funny at me and exclaimed "oh my god. There is PEANUT BUTTER in this!" (of course then i picked up one of the "caramel pieces" which was in fact, a PEANUT piece).
So we immediately pulled over the nearest server, who barely glanced at the piece in question and exclaimed "oh yeah, there are LOTS of nuts in that piece...that's our peanut butter swirl!"
Why the hell couldn't OUR server tell what it was?
So management came over and we told them that she needed Benedryl within the next ten minutes...well, either that or an ambulance! So one of the managers had to run out to the nearest market (which didn't end up having Benedryl...they had to go somewhere else afterward), and Asabi had to try to sit calmly and prevent the reaction from proceeding too quickly.
In the end, she was alright, but she was very close to passing out by the time the Benedryl came back, and I have seriously never been more pissed at a server before. I really don't care how busy he was (the restaurant wasn't abnormally crazy), we were very VERY specific about asking that there be no nuts (which I would think most people understand is a red flag for an allergy!), and he even LOOKED at the piece and stated that there were no nuts.
I still tipped him, but it was like 8%. I guess I can't NOT tip. =)
There's more to the story, but we basically didn't get to go to the show and drove home to Bakersfield instead. oy! Poor Asabi!