Teen awarded $2.7M after suing Bill Miller restaurant over BBQ sauce that caused second degree burns Genesis Monita, 19, has been awarded $2.7 million after she spilled scalding hot barbeque sauce on her thigh in 2023.
The young woman and her sister were on their way to school on May 19, 2023, when they stopped to order breakfast, slathered in the restaurant’s famed hot barbecue sauce, in San Antonio ahead of their school day, according to court filings.
Crucially, Morales stressed that Bill Miller’s policy was to serve their barbeque sauce at a temperature of 165 degrees, and violated critical safety policy when they allowed it to be served at 189 degrees.
Monita was left with severe burns as she took a scalding hot 4-ounce plastic cup of barbeque sauce out from her order bag and dropped it haphazardously onto her thigh.
Her lawyer, Lawrence Morales II, argued it happened because staff violated policy when they failed to serve the sauce in a Styrofoam container, as was typical as per the food chain’s safety guidelines.
