A San Francisco family is suing one of Lake Tahoe’s premier ski areas over an incident stemming from a cup of hot chocolate.
Two winters ago, Brittany Burns and Joshua Moran Burns brought their 5-year-old daughter to Heavenly Mountain Resort in South Lake Tahoe for a day of skiing, according to a lawsuit filed in El Dorado County Superior Court. During a break at the resort’s mid-mountain Sky Deck cafe, an outdoor patio where skiers pick up snacks and drinks from a take-out window, Brittany Burns ordered her child a hot chocolate.
After filling a to-go cup with the beverage, the cashier sprayed whip cream on top and slid the drink, without a lid, across the window counter “directly to the minor,” the lawsuit alleges. The young girl picked it up and “attempted to drink it” but it was too hot and she ended up “spilling the hot chocolate beverage inside her ski suit” which trapped the liquid against her body and scalded her, according to the complaint…