A mum-to-be has blasted a restaurant for removing an ingredient from a dish without asking her, because she’s pregnant.
Brittany Terenowski, 31, shared her story on social media, with the West Australian expecting mum explaining that she ordered a simple side dish while out for dinner.
“I am 23 weeks pregnant,” she said in a TikTok video. “I went out to dinner to an Italian restaurant with my sister last Friday night … I ordered a side of these chips that came with crispy prosciutto on top. So the chips came out and there was no prosciutto.”
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Brittany says she asked the waiter politely if the chips were meant to come with crispy prosciutto.
“This young male waiter goes ‘yes usually they do but we made a change because’ – and he rubbed his belly and looked at me,” Brittany explained. “So we decided that you shouldn’t eat that and we just took it off the item that you ordered without telling you, asking you, discussing anything with you.
“And I was like, oh. Weird, young 20 something year-old male telling me, 31-year-old pregnant woman what I can and can’t eat and just removing things from my dish without consulting with me. Like what the hell!”
“I was instantly like this is a bit messed up and my sister was like yeah this is not right at all.”
Brittany says she wants to know if others thing it’s also ‘messed up’ or whether she is just taking it the wrong way.
“I have been speaking to my OBG and my doctor about what is safe to eat, what is not safe to eat. And the data behind it and making safe choices with those professionals, who are professionally qualified to do so And yeah, I’ve been eating prosciutto and cheese and poached eggs because it’s actually fine.
“I didn’t let it get to me at the time, but then when I was driving home … I thought about it and I was like, that is really messed up. If you’re in the hospitality industry, don’t just assume that a pregnant woman can’t eat something and remove it from her dish and remove it without asking her and talking to her about it. Don’t make that decision for her. You’re not qualified to make those choices.”
Brittany says she was also charged full price for the chip, even though they were missing the ‘expensive’ ingredient.
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