Would You Sign a Waiver Form to Eat at a Restaurant

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Would you sign a waiver form to eat at a restaurant?

I came across a New York Post article about a restaurant in Canada asking a customer to sign a waiver because they ordered a burger cooked to medium instead of well done. The hotel restaurant cooks all their burgers well done.

The restaurant servers ask their customers to sign a waiver for burgers not cooked well. So, if a customer requests a burger medium, the customer needs to sign a waiver.

In this instance, the customer took a bite before the server brought the waiver form. The customer was nice, paid for the meal, and left.

There are several things I can see you need to sign a waiver form for, such as:

• If you use a sky diving company to take you on a plane and you jump out of the plane using a parachute, the sky diving company wants to protect itself from the customer's negligence.
• If you purchase stocks in the stock market, you sign a form that says your investment is not guaranteed.
• If you swim with the sharks through a scuba diving company, you sign a waiver that says the company is not to blame if a tiger or great white shark eats you while you dive and watch the sharks in their environment.

Final Thoughts

The article says the restaurant is in Canada, but have we all reached that point where everything requires a waiver form? I have never encountered a U.S. restaurant that requires customers to sign a waiver form for burgers cooked to medium.

Have you ever dined at a restaurant that requires you to sign a waiver form for medium-cooked food like burgers?

I hope signing waivers before eating at restaurants never becomes common in the U.S.