Find at least one case similar to these legal issues and explain the case result and provide relevant law. . It does not have to be a case involving hotels or restaurants, but find a case which illustrates at least one legal issue you have identified. Look for issues of contract and negligence. What are the applicable standards?

You are a restaurant manager. A reservation has been made for a party of 10 persons at 9:00 pm for a birthday dinner, but when the party arrives you do not have any room in your popular restaurant. A table for 10 will not be available until at least 9:45. The party insists that they be provided service, since this is a very special birthday and the birthday guest only wants to eat in this restaurant. While the guests are waiting, you serve them an appetizer which makes one of the guests ill from an allergic reaction. The guests threaten to bring a lawsuit for the reservation breach and for food poisoning injuries.

1. Does the restaurant have the liability for reservation breach?

2. Does the restaurant have the liability for guest’s illness from an allergic reaction?

3. Does the restaurant have the negligence for serving guests without asking the allergen?

4. Does the restaurant have the negligence for serving guests without asking the allergen while guests did not notice the allergen as well?