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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seafood restaurant
chain McCormick & Schmick's has settled a lawsuit brought by a California
woman who said she suffered severe emotional distress after she discovered a
condom in her clam chowder, a company spokesman says. The settlement Monday was reached the day the Portland,
Oregon-based chain was to go to trial in "The case has been resolved... in its entirety in a
manner acceptable to both sides today," McCormick & Schmick's
spokesman Brian Douglas said. "The parties have chosen to resolve it
without further court intervention. Both sides are happy with the
outcome." The privately held company, which operates 42 restaurants
nationwide, maintained that Laila Sultan's claims that she suffered anxiety and
depression were "frivolous." "We still believe that's the truth but in this day and
age it's the price of doing business," Sultan, 48, said the trouble began Feb. 26 when she and
three companions sent their soup back to the kitchen to be reheated while
dining at the Sultan said she was treated rudely by the waiter, and when
she began eating the soup she encountered a chewy, rubbery object that she
first thought was calamari or shrimp, she told local media. She spit the
offending object into her napkin and discovered it was a rolled up condom, she
said. "I said, 'Oh my god' and ran into the bathroom with
another friend of mine and I started throwing up," she said. The restaurant chain launched an investigation but had no
idea how the condom got into her soup, Jen -- |
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