Consumer Law
A New Jersey Pizza Restaurant Faces a Lawsuit Over Hot Sauce
There’s no use crying over spilled marinara, unless you’re from New Jersey and the beloved sauce gives you second-degree burns.
That’s what happened to a Bergen County woman, who claims she dropped a cup of the scalding-hot sauce on her lap while driving home from Brooklyn’s Brick Oven Pizzeria in Hackensack.
As of last week, her ongoing lawsuit against the restaurant was all but cooked. But a state appellate court has ruled for the case to continue, despite the pizzeria’s contention that she threw out most of the evidence, including her clothes after the spill, pictures of the burns, and the smoking gun — the marinara sauce container — according to court documents.
