Restaurant Pulls Hamburgers after Injury
Cracker Barrel and a hamburger supplier were investigated after a patron in South Carolina reported cutting her mouth on a piece of metal embedded in a patty, causing the chain to pull burgers from hundreds of restaurants. The chain has not confirmed what the object was, but they have removed burgers from more than 300 restaurants that were produced on or around the same date as those served in the Myrtle Beach restaurant where the woman was cut, said Julie Davis, spokeswoman for the Lebanon, Tenn.-based restaurants. "We are putting out a wide net," Davis said Tuesday. "We are taking this very seriously." The burgers which are delivered to the restaurants frozen and pre-formed came from Cargill Meat Solutions of Wichita, Kan., which is the chain's largest burger supplier, Davis said. "We're working to gather the information needed to come to a solid conclusion in this matter," said Mark Klein, a spokesman for Cargill's meat businesses. "No one should be jumping to conclusions until the investigation is concluded."
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