In April of this year, a Human Rights Tribunal In the Hammer awarded a man $100,000 dollars. The plaintiff was a customer by the name of B.J, did not have his request made because of his cleanophobic compulsive disorder. Judge Oliver Clothesoff ruled that the restaurant failed to comply with a basic request on behalf of the plaintiff which simply meant for the staff providing and making the food not to wash their hands. The owner of the restaurant made a statement saying that chefs and staff have to be clean at all times. "We don't want to risk of having our customers sick. If we get them sick like with e coli, that would get us in trouble with the health and safety department", said the owner.
The plaintiff went to great lengths to see who came in and out of the restroom, if it was a customer, or a staff member. He even tried to follow one of the staff to the back where it clearly says "authorized personnel only", just to see if they were making his food.
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Twenty minutes later the waiter came back this time with smelly fingers. Other customers looked on covering their noses. The plaintiff then asked the waiter if the person who prepared the food had just washed his hands? The waiter replied "Yes, of course". The plaintiff then stormed of the restaurant warning other patrons not to wash their hands again!!
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The court argued that the smell itself was not enough to detour customers because the defendant said nobody else had left the restaurant. Therefor, with such a mild nuisance, the plaintiff failed to provide adequate means of service in which the plaintiff had requested.
Now the owner is looking to the future and hiring staff who pick their nose and scratch their ass in the kitchen area. "I am specifically looking for people who are unhygienic during the interview process", said the owner of the steak house. "If I see them do some pretty bad things like floss their teeth while waiting, I hire them on the spot", he said.
As for the health department, Judge Oliver Clothesoff made a special ruling that the health department cannot discriminate against a restaurant to provide necessary needs as an establishment which does not break Human Right Laws. The judge further commented that we need more work, so he expects more cases to the brought up before the courts.
The steakhouse will appeal the ruling coming up next month

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