Denny's Sued Over Salt

it really comes down to good ole common sense!! just look a the description of the food.that alone should give a person with ANY common sense a hint a s to what they can/can't eat. take some responsibility and quit blaming everyone but yourself

I agree people need to be responsible for themselves. He is a greedy idiot. It would have been so easy to find out the information about the food. Why should the rest of us be denied something because he is stupid. I wish I could be the judge, it would throw out the suit and charge him for wasting everyone's time.

So true what you have said. I dont eat out that much, maybe once a month. I prefer my own food to the resturants. Everyone is suing any more. Maybe all the resturants will close and they will have to eat at home LoL

You said it. When did it stop being our responsibility to check out the foods we eat. This is just another get rich quick lawsuit so that the fat bastard can continue to sit on his _____ and not have to work. We have lawsuits for this, somebody getting burnt from their hot coffee and many other ridiculous ones out there. Come on people wake up!! It is time to start taking responsibility for your own actions and to stop looking for people to blame for your stupidity.

I want to sue my auto maker because they did not warn me that the exhaust fumes from the car parked in the garage would kill me if I closed the garage door while it was running.

Oh, wait. I'm already dead. But SOMEBODY should sue.

Wait...maybe that is considered common knowledge, and therefore common sense if you drive a car these days.

And perhaps salt intake levels are common sense and therefore your responsibility, too?

AMEN! And to think, this type of lawsuit snowballed after the idiot spilled hot coffee (I thought coffee was supposed to be hot! Silly me) in her lap and the more idiotic jury awarded millions in damages.

I couldn't agree more!!

"what if you're on the highway and you don't have a fancy smart phone with internet, and the only open restaurant is a Denny's?"

Oops, it cut off my comment. I would keep driving because I keep enough (unsalted) nuts, dried fruit (no sulfur, no added sugar), and bottled water in the car to last until I get home or a better option (like a grocery store) opens. Nuts, dried fruit, and bottled water last a very long time, so it would take drastic negligence to have to end up at Denny's.

duh....a turkey sandwich might be healthy...but a superbird is a turkey, bacon,cheese, and tomato sandwich on grilled sourdough...TRY USING A LITTLE COMMON SENSE...do you really need to look up the nutritional content to know a sandwich with bacon and cheese might be a bit high on sodium?

Dude, how about a salad? The lack of responsibility in taking care of yourself these days is outrageous! I know when I get past my ideal weight, it isn't the restaurant's fault, the grocery store's fault or my family's fault. Its mine. I am the one that decided to have that extra serving or the desert with my meal. Its also my responsibility to educate myself on what I should put into my body. We aren't children anymore. No one is responsible for teaching us right and wrong now but ourselves. If you don't know what is best for you, there is the internet, books, doctors, etc.

I just wonder how humans survived before we had nutritional values and were told by the government basically what is good for us to eat and what is bad. Dear God, I'm baffled at how humanity survived thousands and thousands of years before humans invented these values and standards.

I have a friend who is allergic to fish or any of its by-products.

He just asks at EVERY restaurant he visits, whether or not there are fish products used in preparing the dishes.

He doesn't sue because they don't post that there are fish products or by-products used in preparation of their foods. Common sense.

Denny's certainly doesn't want to be held accountable for their own actions of knowingly and intentionally serving potentially dangerous food with sky high sodium levels.
When an organization or person does something that hurts someone else "oops, I made a mistake" isn't good enough. Nick DeBenedetto didn't make a mistake. He went to a restaurant believing that they would serve him reasonably safe meals, not meals with sodium levels twice the daily amount recommended by the USDA. It's not his responsibility to research the chemical components of the food that's offered to the American public by Denny's. It's Denny's responsibility to properly label their menu to provide information about potentially dangerous foods. If Denny's simply put the sodium levels on the menu then they would have acted responsibly and wouldn't be facing litigation. I'm sure Denny's puts out "wet floor" signs when they wash the floors in public areas of the restaurant. That's because it's foreseeable that someone might slip and fall just as it's foreseeable that sky high sodium levels in food could cause health problems.
Someone commented that he was able to find Denny's nutritional values in 5 minutes on the internet. Well good for him. He apparently wants everyone held to the standards of his own personal research abilities and never stopped to think that there are millions of Americans who do not have and do not use computers or the internet. Some people simply aren't educated enough to do any research on any topic. These people might know enough to follow the doctor's low sodium intake recommendation and never touch a salt shaker in a retaurant, relying on the retaurant to put reasonable amounts of sodium in their food or at least warn them about it.
The American legal system of resolving disputes involves a plaintiff who feels someone caused him harm and a defendant who may or may not have caused that harm. An independent jury of 6 or 12 American citizens hear both sides and make their decision. How is that a bad system? Ask any insurance claims adjuster when was the last time he gave away a boatload of the insurance company's money on a bogus, frvilous claim? It just doesn't happen.

eat out all you want...but if you dont want a lot of salt avoid fats food restaurants...most steak houses, chinese food, thai food, deli foods, cured meat, etc...

Dont sue a restaurant just because your a fat tub of lard and have to have the grandslam for breakfast everyday