Connecticut woman sues salad chain Chopt claiming she found worker’s FINGER in her lunch after he lopped it off while slicing arugula

• Allison Cozzi of Greenwich, Connecticut , said she made the gruesome discovery while eating lunch at a Mount Kisco, NY branch on April 7, 2023
• According to the court documents, a manager at the restaurant sliced off a portion of her left pointer finger while chopping arugula earlier that day
• Cozzi said she suffered injuries including ‘shock, panic attacks, migraine, cognitive impairment, nausea, dizziness, and neck and shoulder pain’ 

A horrified customer is launching a lawsuit against Chopt after allegedly finding a human finger in her salad. 

Allison Cozzi of Greenwich, Connecticut, said she made the gruesome discovery while dining on a leafy lunch at a Mount Kisco, NY branch on April 7, 2023. 

Her lawsuit launched in New York Supreme Court on Monday says that ‘while she was eating the salad, she realized that she was chewing on a portion of a human finger that had been mixed in to, and made a part of, the salad’. 

According to the court documents seen by DailyMail.com, a manager at the restaurant sliced off a portion of her left pointer finger while chopping arugula earlier that day.  

The manager went to the hospital but the ‘contaminated arugula’ was served to customers including Cozzi, the lawsuit says.

Allison Cozzi of Greenwich, Connecticut , said she found part of a human finger in her food while dining on a leafy lunch at a Mount Kisco, NY Chopt branch (pictured) on April 7, 2023

Westchester County health department records show that Chopt paid a $900 fine for the alleged incident.

Cozzi said in the lawsuit that she suffered injuries including ‘shock, panic attacks, migraine, cognitive impairment, nausea, dizziness, and neck and shoulder pain’ as a result of eating the contaminated salad.

She is seeking unspecified monetary damages. 

Her lawsuit accuses Chopt employees and owners of being ‘reckless, careless and negligent in providing food that was contaminated and adulterated with a foreign object consisting of a portion of a human finger’. 

An email seeking comment was sent to Chopt Creative Salad Co., a chain with more than 70 locations across the eastern United States.

Cozzi’s attorney said Tuesday that she does not want to comment further.

Shockingly, this isn’t the first time a customer eating at a major food chain has found a severed finger in their food – as similar encounters have been documented around the world. 

The lawsuit launched in New York Supreme Court on Monday says that ‘while she was eating the salad, she realized that she was chewing on a portion of a human finger that had been mixed in to, and made a part of, the salad’

In 2021, a Melbourne woman claimed she found a fingernail in her McDonald’s fries while visiting her sick daughter at the Royal Children’s Hospital in the city. 

In California, a pregnant woman discovered a bloody fingertip in her salad in 2016 when she dined at an Applebee’s restaurant in Paso Robles.

A Michigan Arby’s also served a teenage boy an inch-long segment of finger in his junior roast beef sandwich in 2012.  

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