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'I lost my appetite': Cheeseburger served with waiver at Toronto restaurant (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A visitor from the U.S. got more than they asked for at a Toronto hotel restaurant when they ordered a cheeseburger on Monday night that was served with a waiver on the side.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Title feels a bit click-baity, but truly I think the waiver is reasonable. If you want food prepared outside our food safety standards and laws, you should have to waive the right to sue if you get yourself sick and die. Whether it will actually hold in court is contestable.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or the restaurant could say "no we dont do this"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. One could argue that the restaurant went out of its way to provide a customer food request, but many restaurants refuse to cook ground beef at anything below well-done.

Personally, as a Canadian, I would never eat anything less than that for a hamburger, but I cook my steaks near blue at home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I cook my steaks near blue at home.

What's "blue"? Just well-done?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Extra rare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh no, no no. It’s seared on the outside and barely warm on the inside. Super raw. Basically you cook the outside just enough to kill pathogens and then get all the inside raw bloody and delicious.

So I am a proponent of delicious barely cooked meat, but only in steaks and other “whole meats”. Ground meat has a HUGE surface area that contacts machinery so it gets cooked all the way through, always.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A well done steak only belongs one place, and that's the trash

[–] anavrinman 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm an American living in Canada and I think the law and mentality around it are silly.

That said, you're right. Those are the codified rules, and because they are codified, the hotel has taken the necessary steps to protect themselves, while going out of their way to provide this to their customer. They could have just told them no, just like every other establishment does.