A woman was court-ordered to work for Chipotle to avoid jail time for throwing a burrito bowl at a manager’s face.
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Rosemary Hanye,39, was found guilty of one count of assault after confessing that she threw her order at manager Emily Russell in September. According to Complex, the incident was captured on video, which showed Hayne yelling at Russell before she threw the burrito bowl into her face. Initially, Hanye was supposed to pay a fine and only serve 180 days in jail with a 90-day suspension. Still, Judge Timothy Gilligan of Pharma Municipal Court offered her an opportunity to reduce her sentence.
Hayne apparently agreed to work 20 hours per week at the restaurant for two months in exchange for cutting her sentence by 60 days. Russell explained during the sentencing that the last two months had been difficult because she still endured the trauma from the incident since she was reportedly protecting a 17-year-old employee who was being screamed at by Hayne.
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She said that Hayne requested more meat, and she remade the order twice, but Hayne continued to become more upset: “She started screaming at me. The next thing I knew, she threw the food in my face. I was so embarrassed and in shock. I couldn’t believe my customers had to witness that. I had to work with food in my face and hair for the next four hours after it happened because no one was sent to relieve me.”
She quit her job a month after the incident and accused Chipotle of not providing any support.
“I was working 65 hours a week. I was exhausted. I had anxiety every day going to work,”
Chipotle said in response to the incident that “the health and safety of our employees is our greatest priority, and we’re pleased to see justice served for any individual that does not treat our team members with the respect they deserve.”
Authorities were able to find Hayne seven minutes after the incident since her name and phone number were on the order’s receipt, said police Lt. Dan Ciryak: “It was pretty easy to locate her, as the caller provided her license plate information and the female’s receipt displayed her first name as Rosie along with her phone number,”
Russell has found a new job at Raising Cane’s and launched a GoFundMe to help with her bills.