Panera, formerly Panera Bread.

This is THE SECOND person who died from drinking this.

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        And? Maybe those people shouldn’t drink stuff with tons of caffeine in it. Do you also want to restrict sales of energy shots at grocery stores?

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          I don’t want to “restrict” them, like some kind of law or something.

          I’m just pointing out that they could, as a business, stop people from killing themselves with their product. “Buyer beware” just externalizes the burden of safety onto customers, and will absolutely result in more deaths. They could stop this from happening.

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            1 year ago

            My understanding from other comments ITT is that the company posted warnings after the first incident. If they continued despite that, that’s on the customer. Preventing people from buying something that could hurt them (but most likely won’t) is silly. Just label things in such a way that people should understand the risks, and then call it good (and perhaps have cashiers mention it as well if they order multiple).

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              This is a recreational drug and cashiers should be empowered to intervene for the health of the customer, no different from a bartender cutting someone off when they’ve had too much.

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                Sure, I just don’t think it should be expected policy. Caffeine is a very safe drug, and it only really causes problems if you have other serious health conditions.

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                  1 year ago

                  Or if you consume extremely large amounts! Three lemonades is many many times the safe dose.

                  Like, at this level I think hallucinations become possible lol

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                    Sure, but three is also many times less than the legal dose, which is something like 150-200mg/kg of body mass (Wikipedia article). According to Panera, their lemonades have ~150mg caffeine. Again from Wikipedia:

                    [Caffeine overdose] typically occurs only after ingestion of large amounts of caffeine, well over the amounts found in typical caffeinated beverages and caffeine tablets (e.g., more than 400–500 mg at a time).

                    So 3 of these drinks is right in that range of the upper limit of what’s reasonable, and each is about the amount in a typical energy drink (Red bull has 80mg/can, Monster has about 160mg/can). That doesn’t sound excessive to me. Sure, three is a lot, but that’s still not enough to cause problems unless you already have significant health risks. So as long as they have signage saying how much caffeine it has in a way customers can visualize, I honestly think that’s fine.