The burrito bowl got here with an additional aspect of squeak.
A girl “bit right into a rodent” that was inside a burrito bowl she ordered from Chipotle Mexican Grill on the Higher East Facet, the horrified buyer alleged in a brand new lawsuit.
Gia Bernhardt, 24, ordered a burrito bowl and a aspect of chips and guacamole from the Chipotle between East 84th and East eighty fifth Avenue and Third Avenue on Jan. 11 by means of the DoorDash app, in response to a civil criticism obtained by The Submit.
When she went to chow down on her order, Bernhardt allegedly “bit right into a rodent contained throughout the meal she was consuming,” the lawsuit filed on Monday in New York County Supreme Courtroom mentioned.
“[T]he rodent was throughout the plaintiff’s mouth after biting into the meal,” the criticism added.
The gnarly incident precipitated Bernhardt to “endure extreme bodily accidents,” ache, shock, and psychological anguish, courtroom paperwork alleged.
The favored quick meals chain “knew or ought to have identified that its product was harmful to member(s) of most people,” the lawsuit argued.
DoorDash and an unnamed deliveryman have been additionally named as co-defendants — with the lawsuit arguing the deliveryman employed by means of the favored app “improperly and negligently delivered the product in an unsafe and unsanitary method.”
The precise accidents Bernhardt suffered after biting into the rogue rodent, or the kind of rodent allegedly within the meal, will not be instantly clear.
The lawsuit seeks a cash judgment and undefined compensatory and punitive damages for the unfortunate buyer.
Chipotle, DoorDash, and Bernhardt’s lawyer, Steven Vaccaro, didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
