ANTIOCH, Calif. - Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec.

The restaurant staff accidentally gave Julian Mayorga a margarita Monday. He grew drowsy and started vomiting a few hours later and was rushed to the hospital.

"I wasn't going to make a big deal about it," the mother told the Contra Costa Times on Thursday, "but then he got sick."

The apple juice and margarita mix were stored in identical plastic bottles, and the manager mistakenly grabbed the margarita container to pour the boy's drink, said Randy Tei, vice president for Apple Bay East Inc., which owns the franchise restaurant and nine other Applebee's in the San Francisco Bay area.

The Mayorgas will be reimbursed for their medical bills, and Tei said the franchise group's restaurants will no longer serve apple juice and margaritas in similar containers.

"We absolutely believe it was an honest mistake," Tei said.

The serving appeared to have been accidental, Antioch police Lt. Pat Welch said. Mayorga said her son is now doing fine.

She said the company has been very apologetic and offered free meals, but she added, "If they think I'm going back there, they're ridiculous."

I would have been PISSED if they gave my kid Margaritas instead of juice. You would think that they would keep those two APART.

Idiots!! :mad:

I absolutely hate Applebee's, but I can see how that could be an honest mistake.

But they were morons for keeping those two different things in the same kind of container.

Thats terrible!

Omg!! id of wished my parents took me there as a toddler!! lol!!

Joke aside thats pretty awfull! very bad mistake

Wasting away again at Applebees
Searching for my sippy cup of juice
Some people claim that a manager is to blame
Now I think we should file a lawsuit.



Sorry, I couldn't resist and that was nothing but negligence on Applebees part, The woman really should file a lawsuit as far as I'm concerned.

I agree file a lawsuit!

Even if the apple juice and the booze were in identical containers, wouldn't the person opening the booze container SMELL what was inside?? How could they have let that slip past?? :mad:

Even if the apple juice and the booze were in identical containers, wouldn't the person opening the booze container SMELL what was inside?? How could they have let that slip past?? :mad:


Plus, you'd think the ring of coarse salt on the sippy cup would have given it away! ;) Good thing they don't have the Chi-Chi's policy of free refills during happy hour!

They really have to start carding people at these restaurants...

;)

Wasting away again at Applebees
Searching for my sippy cup of juice
Some people claim that a manager is to blame
Now I think we should file a lawsuit.



Sorry, I couldn't resist and that was nothing but negligence on Applebees part, The woman really should file a lawsuit as far as I'm concerned.
:lol: That's too funny.

Wasting away again at Applebees
Searching for my sippy cup of juice
Some people claim that a manager is to blame
Now I think we should file a lawsuit.



Sorry, I couldn't resist and that was nothing but negligence on Applebees part, The woman really should file a lawsuit as far as I'm concerned.
LOL Zoneboy, Write that as a whole parody. and submit to www.amiright.com

She said the company has been very apologetic and offered free meals, but she added, "If they think I'm going back there, they're ridiculous."

Dude... It's a Free meal! Free! Just don't bring the kid, is all...

Wow. I'd be wicked pissed if that happened to my kid. A mistake is a mistake, but seriously. It shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Didnt something like that happen already?

Dude... It's a Free meal! Free! Just don't bring the kid, is all...

Yeah- like you don't think the hamburger patties aren't going to be used as underarm guards and the salad won't have a spitball in it by the time it arrives at the table?

I agree - no freebie at this point thanks! ;)

Why can't just for once, I order a Coke and get a double Southern Comfort and Coke given to me by mistake?!?!

I'm going to the wrong restuarants I guess...:rolleyes:

Plus, you'd think the ring of coarse salt on the sippy cup would have given it away! ;) Good thing they don't have the Chi-Chi's policy of free refills during happy hour!
Not to mention the worm at the bottom of the sippy cup! ;)

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration is denying allegations that an airport screener seized a toddler's sippy cup and mistreated his mother, taking the unusual step of posting security camera footage on its Web site.

The TSA said in a statement that the incident and the videotape demonstrate that its ``officers display professionalism and concern for all passengers.''

At issue is whether Monica Emmerson, a former Secret Service officer, was improperly detained June 11 after she spilled water out of her child's sippy cup at Washington's Reagan National Airport.

TSA has banned most fluids at airport security checkpoints for nearly a year because of concern about possible liquid explosives.

``I was distraught. I opened my son's sippy cup. I twisted off the top. I wanted to drink the water. It spilled out,'' Emmerson said Saturday.

Emmerson said an officer threatened to arrest her after the water spilled, telling her she was ``endangering the public.'' She said there was no place to dump the water near the security area, and that she was worried when her son started wandering away from her.

The story quickly spread on the Internet this week after blogger Bill Adler, a Washington author, saw a note Emmerson wrote on a Web site for city parents. Adler interviewed Emmerson and relayed her account.

He wrote that a TSA screener seized her 19-month-old's cup after asking if there was water in it, causing Emmerson's son to cry. Emmerson was told she would have to leave the security checkpoint and dump out the water if she wanted to keep the cup.

Emmerson said she accidentally spilled the water because she was nervous and traveling alone with a toddler.

TSA, however, said Emmerson dumped, not spilled, the water on the floor.

A TSA report said Emmerson told an officer that she was a Secret Service agent, flashed her credentials and said she was exempt from the ``stupid'' policy restricting liquids on planes.

But Emmerson denied that she flashed her badge, saying the video footage shows her digging in her luggage for identification.

``That's a gross lie,'' she said.

The video that TSA posted on its Web site Friday shows Emmerson being escorted from the security checkpoint as she appears to take the top off the sippy cup and shake it upside down.

It shows that after she was confronted by several officers, she used paper towels fetched by the TSA to clean up the spot as other passengers stream by her.

``The allegation here that we were out of control is absolutely false,'' said Earl Morris, deputy assistant administrator for security operations with the TSA. ``If you look at the report and the video itself, it shows she's the only one who was out of

^ Man, I have a 1-year-old nephew who is just starting to use a sippy cup. I'll have to warn my sister!! :rolleyes: :lol: