Eat THIS, Banzhaf

Delicious:

In an attempt to make a law professor in the other Washington look silly, a popular restaurant [in Seattle] is requiring customers to sign a liability waiver before they eat a fat-by-design dessert called The Bulge.

The waiver, a semi-serious gimmick that might be the first of its kind in the United States, is displayed in poster-sized dimensions near the front door of the 5 Spot, an eatery on Seattle's affluent Queen Anne Hill.

"I will not impose any of sort of obesity-related lawsuit against the 5 Spot or consider any similar type of frivolous legislation created by a hungry trial lawyer," the release says. After a diner signs it, a waiter hauls out a sugarcoated, deep-fried, ice cream-swaddled, caramel-drizzled, whipped-cream-anointed banana.

Comments

[isildur]

Although I don't suggest a pilgrimage to the 5 Spot for anything other than the novelty. I eat there a couple times a week, at least, as it's walking distance from the office, and its food is only mediocre.

[thoreau]

But isn't forcing somebody to sign a waiver a violation of the inalienable Constitutional right to sue? I'm sure that right must be somewhere in the Constitution.

Somebody should sue that restaurant for infringing his right to sue!

[Andrew Lynch]

...its food is only mediocre.

Do they claim their food is great, or the best in town? If so, they're prone to false-advertisement suits. Hard as they try, there's just no escaping the Almighty Attorney.

Particularly if he's, um, hungry.

[kevrob]

Attorneys are the ravenous bugblatter beasts of Traall of our modern world. They are always hungry.

I know I want one as hungry when I hire one! (smarter, though.)

Kevin

[s.m. koppelman]

I think a few old-school ice cream parlors--like Jahn's up in New York back in the day, and Jaxson's in Dania Beach, Florida--have made signing a waiver of liability part of ordering their "kitchen sink" sundaes for decades now.

I know of a couple of barbecue joints that make up for any shortcomings in their meat by offering a gimmicky sign-a-waiver-first "insanely hot" sauce.

It's nice to see the trend moving upscale.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

"Now when whores and drug dealers make you sign waivers, then you know this country has really gone off the deep end."

That would mean that they are offering a legal product that could be disputed in a court (buyer vs. seller). If this is the deep end, then push me in!

[Plutarck]

Now when whores and drug dealers make you sign waivers, then you know this country has really gone off the deep end.

[Kramer Zak]

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DATE: 01/21/2004 09:18:47
What else can i say after all this ?!