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Don’t restaurants have slim profit margins? Apparently some don’t think so:
Posted: January 30th, 2006 | Filed under: Tragicomic, Ironic, Obnoxious Or AbsurdA Manhattan Realtor claims she got a nasty surprise at Jean Georges Vongerichten’s swank three-star restaurant in Columbus Circle when she bit into a blackberry and chomped down hard on a small black pebble.
Joanna Cutler claims she bit the berry hard enough to shatter a bridge during the meal on Feb. 5, 2003.
Cutler — whose suit describes the pebble as a “pit” — claims she had to undergo emergency oral surgery and get dental implants.
“I have good taste, perhaps not in dessert,” said Cutler, who runs Joanna Cutler Real Estate.
In her lawsuit, filed Jan. 19 in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Cutler accuses Jean Georges restaurant, the crown jewel in Vongerichten’s culinary empire, of serving her the bad berry in a fruit plate. She is seeking $500,000 — a hefty tab, even for the famed French culinary master.
“It’s a big claim for a $16 dessert,” Vongerichten told The Post.