Restaurant Mistakenly Serves Alcohol to 4-Year-Old, Who Ends Up Drunk
Someone's getting fired.
By Rheanna O'Neil Bellomo
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Drinks were dangerously mixed up at Armando's, a Mexican restaurant in southwest Detroit, causing a 4-year-old to become intoxicated.
According Teria Smith, who lives in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, her daughter had ordered a virgin strawberry daiquiri but was given a glass spiked with booze. A local news outlet, WDIV, that two seemingly identical drinks were ordered by two different tables—a standard daiquiri and one without alcohol. Somehow, they were mixed up and after a few sips Smith's 4-year-old quickly became drunk.
It wasn't until the girl's older sister noticed the supposedly nonalcoholic daiquiri was, in fact, spiked that Smith took the strawberry drink away—but not before filming her toddler dance and joke around the restaurant. "I'd never seen a drink kid before," she told the news station.
Restaurant reps had apparently offered to call an ambulance but Smith turned them down, driving her daughter to the hospital afterward. There, the little girl's urine tested positive for alcohol and Smith subsequently filed a police report. "I believe that this restaurant needs to be investigated," she said. "My child's drink should come in a kid's cup. And parents should check the cups from now on."
The restaurant claims that this was an honest mistake, noting that the server was inexperienced. And its general manager made an official statement, noting that "although it was an isolated incident, Armando's will take immediate action to ensure our staff receives retraining in alcohol service through the Servsafe alcohol program."
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