California Pizza Kitchen
Topic: Physical Well Being
Had dinner at California Pizza Kitchen here the other day. My favorite pizza there is the one with the Caesar salad and avocado on top of it. California Club I think they call it. Well, an hour after eating that it was heavy painful cramps followed by a painful drive to a bathroom. The joys of food poisoning. I still don't feel great but I thought it would be a good idea to let the restaurant know so they could take that Caesar out of stock. Ah, the joy of trying to be a good citizen. The manager on the phone got defensive and pretty much treated me like a criminal over it. You know, you really don't get sick after an hour. Humm. That would be wrong. MedlinePlus here says "The symptoms from the most common types of food poisoning generally start within 2 to 6 hours of eating the food responsible. That time may be longer (even a number of days) or shorter, depending on the toxin or organism responsible for the food poisoning." Well, after being treated like I was trying to pull a scam on them I said you know, it doesn't pay to be a good guy. So to the Corporate site I go to give them the clue in about the bad salad and to tell them about their manager and his people skills. Unless those are the people skills they've taught their managers - you know, the customer is to be disbelieved and treated like a potential criminal. I'll give the Corporate a short while then it's off to the health department.