Alamo Drafthouse management is taking action after two customers became sick after they were served cleaning solution in a drink at their La Vista location.
The employee that served the drinks has now been fired and the company is promising to retrain staff to prevent such an incident from happening again. Alamo released this statement on Wednesday:
"On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, two guests and a staff member were accidentally served a cleaning solution in their drinks. This is a truly awful situation, and we have made contact with the guests so we can do everything we can to make this right. We are sincerely sorry and have already put in place a thorough review to ensure that this was an isolated incident and we firmly believe it was. Our company's health and safety procedures were clearly not followed, and the employee responsible has been terminated. We have initiated a full staff retraining to ensure that it does not happen again."
Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov tells 6 News this shouldn't be treated as a simple accident. "It's frightening and a little shocking. But we can't just write it off to stuff happens. Someone neglected what they were doing or how they did it."
Questions remain after someone refilled a liquor bottle with a toxic cleaning solution and left it near the bar. "Where does it come from, how does it get in the system, who has access to it and of course the main question, why would they put it in a liquor bottle," Polikov says.
An investigation by the Nebraska Liquor Commission is also underway.
One of the two women who was given the drink is Sarah Baker, wife of KFAB afternoon host Chris Baker. She says her throat is still burning and she has no energy.
"We have to be suspicious I think of any victimization when anybody receives some harm," Polikov told 6 News. "Especially public harm."
Harm caused by the reuse of a liquor bottle, an act that is illegal according to the Nebraska Liquor Commission.
(Photo: Sara Baker)