Question: PLEASE HELP! Will Add like to correct answer with explanation, thank you. Booker v . Mejores Tacos After purchasing land near a small shopping center
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Booker v Mejores Tacos
After purchasing land near a small shopping center in Macon, Georgia in April of Mejores Tacos, Inc. built a restaurant that it opened later that year. Since its opening nearly years ago, Mejores Tacos has been a favorite for locals, serving the best Mexican cuisine in Macon. Every evening their tables are packed with hungry families and friends. Their business has had such success that they are in the process of opening a second location in Atlanta.
Mejores Tacos is also a big supporter of their local youth, hiring most of their servers and bussers from nearby high schools. Randy Silverstein was one such student whom Mejores Tacos hired for its Macon restaurant in August of At the time he was hired, Randy was years old and had no prior experience as a server, but he was enthusiastic about the new job. The restaurant trained him with a supervisor for two days before allowing him to complete tasks on his own.
The most popular item on the Mejores Tacos menu is their Classic Tacos Combo. Two weeks after starting his new position at Mejores Tacos, Randy was carrying a Classic Tacos Combo to a hungry patron when he bumped into another server just outside the kitchen. The jostle from the collision in the dimly lit hallway sent the plate crashing to the floor, spilling food in front of the doors to the restrooms.
It was in the middle of the Friday night dinner rush, so Randy quickly picked up the plate, scooping up some of the tortillas and refried beans that had spilled, and went to the kitchen to place a new order of the tacos. He made a mental note to clean up the remaining food left on the floor. Unfortunately, the rush of the restaurant made Randy completely forget about the accident, and the spill stayed on the floor.
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes later, Ronda Booker, an elderly patron at the restaurant, was on her way to the ladies room when she slipped on the spilled Classic Tacos Combo. She fell and broke her hip. Mejores Tacos immediately called and an ambulance transported Ms Booker to the nearest hospital, where she had surgery to stabilize her hip. A few days later her condition worsened; she suffered from a very high fever degrees and convulsions. Doctors determined that she had contracted MRSA Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus a serious and potentially fatal antibioticresistant staph infection.
Booker spent more than a week in the hospital four days in the intensive care unit or ICU before being discharged to Davis Rehab and Physical Therapy Center for an additional weeks of inpatient care and physical therapy. She also continued to receive an aggressive treatment of intravenous IV antibiotic for her MRSA infection.
In early November, Ms Booker finally returned to her home. Even with physical therapy, she now requires a walker to get around. After talking with her daughter, an attorney, Ronda filed a lawsuit in a Georgia state court, alleging that Mejores Tacoss negligence in failing to exercise ordinary care to keep the premises safe caused her injuries. Georgias premises liability statute holds that landowners owe a different standard of care owed to invitees and licensees.
In OCGA Georgia specifies the duty of an owner or occupier of land to invitees:
Where an owner or occupier of land, by express or implied invitation, induces or leads others to come upon his premises for any lawful purpose, he is liable in damages to such persons for injuries caused by his failure to exercise ordinary care in keeping the premises and approaches safe.
In OCGA Georgia specifies the duty an owner of land owes to licensees:
A licensee is a person who:
Is neither a customer, a servant, nor a trespasser;
Does not stand in any contractual relation with the owner of the premises; and
Is permitted, expressly or impliedly, to go on the premises merely for his own interests, convenience, or gratification.
The owner of the premises is liable to a licensee only for willful or wanton injury.
Directions: Using the FIRAC model, evaluate Rondas premises liability claim against Mejores Tacos. Make sure that you discuss whether Ronda Booker is an invitee or licensee, the duty the restaurant owed her, and whether the hazard caused by the spilled food was an open and obvious danger such that the Majores Tacos would not need to warn restaurant patrons.
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